Windrush Mill is a Grade II* listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. A Not explicitly stated Mill. 8 related planning applications.
Windrush Mill
- WRENN ID
- ruined-gargoyle-owl
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1952
- Type
- Mill
- Period
- Not explicitly stated
- Address
- Windrush Mill, OX18 4TY
- OS grid reference
- SP 192 135
- Coordinates
- 51.8201, -1.72261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Windrush Mill is a mid 17th century to early 18th century miller's house and adjoining mill. The house is built of coursed squared and dressed limestone, topped with a stone slate roof and features restored ashlar stacks from the 20th century. The mill is constructed from coursed and roughly squared limestone. The house has a rectangular plan with a later lean-to extension at the rear and the mill building located at the right gable end. The house is situated on a slope down to the River Windrush and has two storeys and an attic. Its facade has three windows, featuring two and three-light steel casements, and a five-light hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned casement with a stopped hood on the lower right. Above, there is a two-light stone-mullioned casement with a stopped hood, and a 20th-century plank door with a flat stone canopy supported by moulded stone brackets. The attic is illuminated by a roof dormer on the rear pitch, and the gable ends have flat coping with gable-end and axial stacks.
The mill building to the right is 1½ storeys tall and has a 20th-century dormer from the eaves. There is a stable door below, framed with run-out stops just beneath the lintel, and two buttresses with offsets to the right of the door. A small plank door is located to the right within a surround, with its lintel set at an angle, and above it is a 20th-century two-light casement. The rear wall of the mill building features two blocked stone-mullioned casements and one 20th-century two-light casement. Inside the house, there is a spine beam with deep flat chamfers. The mill retains a wooden undershot mill wheel, along with millstones and hoppers, although all milling machinery was noted to be in need of some repair as of February 1986. There was limited interior inspection of both the house and the mill.
Local climate
Windrush Mill receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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