Melbury Abbas Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1985. Corn mill. 1 related planning application.
Melbury Abbas Mill
- WRENN ID
- scarred-belfry-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1985
- Type
- Corn mill
- Address
- Melbury Abbas Mill, Redmans Lane, SP7 0DB
- OS grid reference
- ST 877 206
- Coordinates
- 50.98542, -2.17607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Melbury Abbas Mill is an early 19th-century corn mill situated on Redmans Lane, Melbury Abbas (formerly known as Barfoot Mill, Mill Hollow Lane). The building is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar and brick dressings, and it has a slate roof that is half-hipped to the left. It is two storeys high with an irregular arrangement of windows. These windows include two- and three-light casements, some featuring full glazing bars, others horizontal glazing bars, and some incorporating leaded lights. There are three segmentally headed openings to the left of the building, with the outermost one enclosed. The ground and first floors have plank doors in the second bay from the right. An external cast-iron overshot waterwheel is located to the right, and a wall inscription reads 'E S Hindley 1875 Bourton Dorset'. The internal machinery is complete, including two pairs of millstones.
Local climate
Melbury Abbas Mill receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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