Bridge Street Mill is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1970. A C19 Mill. 2 related planning applications.
Bridge Street Mill
- WRENN ID
- over-moat-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1970
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Bridge Street Mill, 4, 6 and 8, Witney
- OS grid reference
- SP 358 102
- Coordinates
- 51.78944, -1.48231
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge Street Mill is a spinning and weaving mill, later used as industrial units, principally dating to around 1900 with origins in the mid-19th century. The building was founded in the 1860s by William Smith of Witney.
The main front section is constructed from squared and coursed limestone with a gabled Welsh slate roof and a tall stone chimney stack to the rear of the central range. It is two storeys and an attic high, with a seven-window range. Three shaped gables feature ball finials at their apexes and stepped, scrolled sides. Keyed flat stone arches are above the 20th-century windows, which are set within ashlar jambs. A plain gabled bay with engineering-brick coping is to the left, alongside an ashlar bay with a semi-circular shaped gable and a moulded cornice over a three-light mullioned window with sashes.
To the rear right is a long, mid-19th century range of coursed limestone rubble with a gabled stone slate roof; other rear ranges date to around 1900. The chimney stack served the steam-powered looms, and blankets produced at the mill were taken to Smith's Mill at Crawley to be fulled.
Local climate
Bridge Street Mill receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 30 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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