Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Mill House
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-postern-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mill House, Perry's Lane, Wroughton, SN4 9AP
- OS grid reference
- SU 144 808
- Coordinates
- 51.5263, -1.79281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill House is a house that is attached to The Old Mill and may have originally been built as an adjunct to the older mill. A datestone marked "IL" (possibly for John Little) indicates a construction date of 1685, located on the brick gable wall, which is now inside the adjoining premises. The house features red brick in Flemish bond, with rubble on the back wall and some chalk block on the inner face, topped by a plain tile roof.
The front of the house is plain and symmetrical, with a wing added to the back right in the late 19th century, which is not of special interest. The building is two storeys tall with an attic and has three windows. The ground floor windows are three-light casements set in low elliptical arches, while the first floor windows have straight brick arches. The window above the door is a two-light design, and all windows feature small flush ashlar keystones.
The central entrance has a six-panel door, with the upper two panels glazed, set within a 19th-century gabled porch supported by posts and adorned with decorative barge boards. At the back, there are two three-light raking dormers. The original rear door, a heavy six-panel fielded door, is now located within the building but is opposite the front entry. A brick gable stack is positioned to the right.
Inside, the ground floor includes some panelled shutters and good early 19th-century panelled doors. The first floor has 19th-century plank and batten doors. The roof is of an A-frame design with two butt purlins, which could date from the late 17th century, corresponding with the datestone. The roof members are rough and limewashed, suggesting that this building may have served as ancillary to the main mill. The ground floor features stop-chamfered beams with run-out stops. Although the exterior appears to be a late 18th or early 19th-century structure, it may actually be a substantial cladding or rebuild of an earlier building.
Local climate
Mill House 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 lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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