Mill House and Old Mill is a Grade I listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1952. A Medieval Mill. 4 related planning applications.
Mill House and Old Mill
- WRENN ID
- tired-pewter-rain
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1952
- Type
- Mill
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Mill House and Old Mill, Town Path, Salisbury, SP2 8EU
- OS grid reference
- SU 135 294
- Coordinates
- 51.06389, -1.80823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill House and The Old Mill, dating from the 14th to 15th century, have been restored, with the Mill House being an early 19th-century addition. The Mill is a two-storey structure featuring a mix of dressed stone and knapped coursed flint, topped with an old tile roof that extends down to the ground floor ceiling level on the northwest front. The southeast front displays a symmetrical ground floor arrangement with two single-light moulded stone windows that have pointed arches and incised spandrels within rectangular surrounds, along with two similar doorways featuring moulded stone surrounds and four-centred arched heads with carved spandrels. These doorways have later plain ledged doors and two central squints in stone surrounds. A continuous moulded stone string runs across the front at the heads of the windows and doors, extending down the sides of each opening and turning horizontally at the bottom of the drop sash side of the windows, ending with diamond blocks beside the door openings. On the first floor, there are five two-light leaded casements, likely modern, and fine open timber framing in the roof of the first-floor room, which was originally the Mill store. Inside, there is some 17th to 18th-century panelling and early woodwork. The Mill House is a plain four-storey brick building to the left of the mill, featuring brick dentil eaves and a hipped slate roof. Originally, it had two windows on the upper floors, now increased to three, along with two two-light contemporary casements on the ground floor and a six-panel door to the left under a 18th-century pediment hood supported by carved scroll brackets. There is a service entry on the right side. The mill is set in a picturesque location, overlooking a large pool and the river. The building's historical significance contributes to its grading. It is currently used as a restaurant, and the retaining walls for the sluices and mill walk should be carefully considered in relation to the building.
Local climate
Mill House and Old 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 4 applications
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- 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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