West Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Industrial. 2 related planning applications.
West Mills
- WRENN ID
- hollow-bonework-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- West Mills, West Street, Bridport
- OS grid reference
- SY 463 930
- Coordinates
- 50.73421, -2.76169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Mills is a late 19th-century industrial building constructed of red brick with Portland ashlar dressings. It features a pitched slate roof with coped gables and stands three storeys high. The building has four ranges of segment-headed industrial windows with glazing bars and keystones, with two ranges located on the west elevation. Additionally, there is one range of planked loading doors on the west elevation, accompanied by a planked sack-hoist that projects on wooden brackets. Internally, cast iron columns support the floors, and machinery is still in use. To the north, there are one-storey outhouses, with the first likely dating from the 18th century and the rest from the 19th century, all built of hammer-dressed stone with pitched slate roofs. The east elevations of the outhouses feature various windows, including two wood mullioned windows with iron bars and planked shutters with contemporary hinges, as well as one 19th-century fixed window with glazing bars.
Local climate
West Mills 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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