The Corn Mill and Mill Wheel is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. Corn mill. 3 related planning applications.

The Corn Mill and Mill Wheel

WRENN ID
plain-copper-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cotswold
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1952
Type
Corn mill
Address
The Corn Mill and Mill Wheel, Compton Abdale, GL54 4DR
OS grid reference
SP 062 165
Coordinates
51.84746, -1.91134
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Corn Mill and Mill Wheel is a former barn and corn mill, dating to the late 18th and mid-19th centuries. It has been converted into a house and an open-fronted store. The building is constructed of limestone rubble, with stone slate and artificial stone slate roofs to the main body, and a Roman tile roof to the open-fronted store.

The building has a rectangular plan, consisting of the barn/mill, a projecting porch on the south side, and several lean-to extensions. A lean-to is located to the left of the porch, and another is attached to the rear left gable. A further lean-to was absent from the rear left at the time of a resurvey in August 1985. The south elevation features double doors within the porch. C20 casements (single and two-light) are present in the left lean-to. Ventilation slits are located to the right of the porch, and a former pitching window sits below the eaves. The left gable end exhibits a two-light stone-mullioned casement on the first floor, with a similar C20 casement to the left on the ground floor. The ground floor right side features French doors alongside two single-light casements, one of which is an 18th-century design with a flat-chamfered stone surround. Three C20 skylights are visible in the roof, both at the front and rear.

At the rear of the building, an overshot water wheel, approximately 7 metres in diameter, remains in situ. Water is diverted from a lake via a leat to a feeder pool (containing an overflow outlet and sluice), and then through a cast-iron pipe supported on a stone pier to a tank situated above the uppermost part of the wheel. To the right of the mill/barn is an eight-bay open-fronted store, with bays divided by stone piers.

Internally, the gearing originally powered by a traction engine remains in situ, alongside two mill wheels in a room above. The mill ceased production in the late 1940s or early 1950s.

Local climate

The Corn Mill and Mill Wheel receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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