Littleton Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1976. A C18 Water mill. 1 related planning application.
Littleton Mill
- WRENN ID
- last-pedestal-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1976
- Type
- Water mill
- Address
- Littleton Mill, Littleton Mill Lane, Semington, BA14 6LQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 912 606
- Coordinates
- 51.34479, -2.12724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Littleton Mill is a water mill that has been converted into a dwelling. It dates from the 18th century and was rebuilt in the early 1800s. The building is constructed from coursed rubble stone and features a shallow-pitched hipped roof covered with Welsh slate. The southeast gable end has a 20th-century entrance, and there are 20th-century casement windows with square hoodmoulds on both the ground and first floors. The northeast front, which faces the mill race, also has three 20th-century casements with hoodmoulds. The rear and northwest gable end have similar 20th-century casements.
While the interior was not accessible during the survey, it has been converted into a dwelling since the building was listed in 1976, and the interior has been remodeled. Originally, the mill operated as a woollen fulling mill before being converted to a corn mill in 1887, and it continued to mill barley until 1976.
The mill is historically significant due to its association with a machine-breaking riot in 1802, during which the woollen mill was burned down. Thomas Hellicker, a shearman from Trowbridge, was hanged in 1803 for alleged arson, but his probable innocence has made him a hero in the history of Wiltshire's industrial workers.
Local climate
Littleton Mill receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No sale records on file
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