Post Office Slaughter Mill and Sluice Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1960. Mill. 4 related planning applications.
Post Office Slaughter Mill and Sluice Bridge
- WRENN ID
- stranded-beam-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1960
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Post Office Slaughter Mill and Sluice Bridge, Lower Slaughter, GL54 2HX
- OS grid reference
- SP 163 226
- Coordinates
- 51.90179, -1.76363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Slaughter Mill and Sluice Bridge, also known as the Post Office, is an early 19th-century building located in Lower Slaughter. It is constructed in two parts, featuring both red brick and coursed rubble with Cotswold stone roofs. The structure is two storeys high with attics and has three windows that include two and three light wood casements with elliptical heads. There is a plain door topped with a gabled hood, and the building has two single-storey wings.
Notable features include a tall red brick chimney with stone weathering on the south gable and a large iron breast shot wheel. The mill retains much of its original gearing and machinery, including the grinding gear. As the only large brick building in the area, it holds a significant place in the village's landscape and contributes to a well-loved picturesque view. The sluice bridge, located behind the wheel, is a simple ashlar construction that arches over the sluice in a hump-backed shape and lacks a parapet.
Local climate
Post Office Slaughter Mill and Sluice Bridge 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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