The Flower Shop the Old Mill Gifts is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. Shop.
The Flower Shop the Old Mill Gifts
- WRENN ID
- quiet-vault-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1988
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- The Flower Shop the Old Mill Gifts, 3, Mill Square, Padstow
- OS grid reference
- SW 918 754
- Coordinates
- 50.54179, -4.93877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Flower Shop and The Old Mill Gifts is a shop with accommodation above, dating from around the mid-19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and features a slate roof with gabled and hipped ends, along with brick axial stacks. The building has an overall rectangular plan, with a large shop on the ground floor and living space above, located on or near the site of one of Padstow's mills.
The exterior consists of two storeys and an attic. The south elevation showcases a pair of 19th-century shop fronts, with three 4-pane sash windows above and two full hipped dormers featuring 19th-century sashes. The right-hand corner is canted and includes a late 19th-century or early 20th-century window above. The west elevation has a 19th-century shop front on the ground floor, with a 20th-century door to the right, a 4-pane sash window, and a double sash window on the first floor. The attic features two full dormers with 19th-century sashes and hipped slate roofs.
Local climate
The Flower Shop the Old Mill Gifts sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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