Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1955. House. 1 related planning application.

Mill House

WRENN ID
grey-niche-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1955
Type
House
Address
Mill House, Wimborne St. Giles, BH21 5LZ
OS grid reference
SU 030 119
Coordinates
50.90738, -1.95861
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mill House, possibly originally a paper mill and later an inn in the 19th century, is now a private house. It features English-bond brickwork with tiled roofs and gable copings. A brick projecting stack with two diagonally set flues shows traces of arabesque decoration in cement above, and there is a further stack with four clustered flues on the ridge, positioned to the right of center. The building is near symmetrical, standing two storeys with attics and comprising six bays. The two central bays are topped with a gable that has coping, an apex finial, and brick kneelers. The windows are mostly restored stone mullioned types with square-headed lights and labels; the ground floor windows have sunk-chamfered surrounds, while those on the upper floor are ovolo-moulded. The gable features a similar three-light window, and there is a central elliptical-headed chamfered stone doorway. A mill race once passed under the left-hand end of the structure.

Inside, the left ground floor rooms have intersecting ceiling beams, which are now cased but are said to be unmoulded. The central room includes an open fireplace with a plain timber bressummer and lightly chamfered stone jambs. The first-floor rooms have plain beams resting on shaped brackets, and the roof consists of four plain collar-beam trusses.

Local climate

Mill House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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