Main Mill Building at Bourne Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1988. Mill. 1 related planning application.

Main Mill Building at Bourne Mills

WRENN ID
tattered-truss-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stroud
Constituency
Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 March 1988
Type
Mill
Address
Main Mill Building at Bourne Mills, London Road, Brimscombe and Thrupp, GL5 2TA
OS grid reference
SO 872 021
Coordinates
51.71792, -2.18626
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The main mill building at Bourne Mills is an early 19th-century structure located on the south side of London Road in Brimscombe. It is built from coursed rubble limestone and features an ashlar chimney and a diagonal asbestos slate roof. The building is four storeys tall, with a three-storey block at the south end, forming an L-shape.

On the west side, there are eight windows with two-light chamfered mullioned casements, many of which still have their original leading. An upper floor doorway once had a high-level timber walkway leading to a small mill building to the west. There are some alterations on the right side. The east side features eight segmental arched windows, all with leaded timber casements. The gabled ends have parapets, with the northern end displaying segmental arched doorways on each floor and a hoist gantry above. A cut-down gable-end chimney is also present.

The lower block at the south end has one corner that was cut off and rebuilt due to the construction of the adjacent Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway in 1844. The interior has not been inspected. It is likely that the east wall of the mill was rebuilt around 1840, which accounts for the apparent difference in construction dates between the two main walls. The small mill building to the west and the canal bridge to the north are also noted.

Local climate

Main Mill Building at Bourne Mills receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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