Mosterton Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. Mill-house.
Mosterton Mill
- WRENN ID
- muffled-courtyard-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Mill-house
- OS grid reference
- ST 458 053
- Coordinates
- 50.84486, -2.77095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mosterton Mill is a mill-house and attached mill building dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. The house features dressed stone walls and a slate roof with projecting eaves, along with a brick stack at the left-hand gable. It is two storeys high and has two windows on the ground floor, which are two-light stone mullions with cavetto profiles and separate labels above. The front door is centrally located and has six flush panels with a wooden architrave from the 19th century. An ashlar stone porch with a shallow pedimented roof and a moulded cornice dates to the early 19th century. The gable end has 19th-century brick-dressed sash windows that have been inserted.
The attached mill building, which was formerly a textile mill and is now used as an animal feed compound, is also two storeys tall. It has three windows dating from around 1700, featuring three-light stone mullions of square section with stone architraves and wooden casements. There are an additional seven windows that were added later, indicated by a straight joint, from the 19th century. The ground floor has an entry on the right-hand side, and the roof is constructed with king-posts and queen-struts, dating to the 19th century.
Local climate
Mosterton Mill receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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