The Old Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1971. Former watermill, house. 8 related planning applications.
The Old Mill
- WRENN ID
- sacred-rubble-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1971
- Type
- Former watermill, house
- Address
- The Old Mill, Southover Lane, Burleston and Tolpuddle, DT2 7EX
- OS grid reference
- SY 791 944
- Coordinates
- 50.74912, -2.29664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
An 18th-century former watermill, later converted into a house, is situated on Southover Lane in Tolpuddle. The building is constructed of brick, with some burnt headers visible. It features a tiled mansard roof, half-hipped at the right end, and extends over two storeys and an attic. A brick porch with a slate gabled roof shelters a stable door. On the ground floor are two casement windows with glazing bars, while the first floor has two similar windows and one large fixed window with glazing bars. A dormer window is located in the attic. The front wall projects slightly towards the right end, and a single-storey addition, containing a stable door and two casement windows with glazing bars, is situated at the left end. A mill race runs beneath the building. Below the ground floor, hatches survive, along with one upper horizontal wheel.
Local climate
The Old Mill receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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