The Old Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1960. House.
The Old Mill House
- WRENN ID
- peeling-spandrel-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Mill House, Salisbury Road, Coombe Bissett
- OS grid reference
- SU 108 264
- Coordinates
- 51.03702, -1.84691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Mill House is a detached house located off Salisbury Road in Coombe Bissett. It dates from the early 18th century, with a late 18th-century addition to the south. The building is constructed of English bond brick and features a tiled roof with brick stacks. It has an L-plan layout with an outshut and is two stories high with a three-window front.
On the ground floor, there is a half-glazed door to the left and three 3-light casement windows. The front also has stone quoins. The first floor includes a flush band of vitrified stretchers made of three bricks and three 3-light casements. The eaves cornice is toothed.
The right side of the house has two 2-light casements on the ground floor and two single casements on the first floor, along with one 2-light casement in the attic. The left side features a single casement in the attic. The rear of the house is made of flint, limestone, and brick, with an outshut to the left that has one 3-light casement. The central gabled projection has a half-glazed door on the ground floor and a 3-light casement on the first floor, while the right side has a glazed door and one casement, with the first floor containing one 3-light and one single casement.
Inside, the house features chamfered ceiling beams, plank doors with strap hinges, and one 17th-century reset 6-panelled door with cockspur hinges.
Local climate
The Old Mill House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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