Main Building at Upper Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. Former mill, office. 6 related planning applications.
Main Building at Upper Mills
- WRENN ID
- first-iron-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- Former mill, office
- Address
- Main Building at Upper Mills, Downton Road, Stonehouse, GL10 2BJ
- OS grid reference
- SO 806 046
- Coordinates
- 51.74045, -2.28204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Main Building at Upper Mills is a former mill building, now used as offices, constructed in 1875 for R.S. Davies, a cloth manufacturer. It is made of red brick with stone dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is three storeys tall with an attic and includes a four-storey tower on the west side.
The west front showcases a ten-window arrangement with segmental arched casement windows that have stone sills, interrupted by an off-centre tower. This tower has paired sash windows on the third floor, topped with a pointed arched panel bordered by stone moulding, which extends to form a pointed hoodmould above a circular window on the fourth floor. The tower is capped with a sprocketed and hipped roof, featuring brick eaves decoration, lucarnes, and ironwork cresting. The main block has plain stone banding and sloping attic windows in a mansard roof.
The rear of the building mirrors the front with a ten-window fenestration. The ends of the building have coped gables and single window casement fenestration. There have been some 20th-century alterations to the ground floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Main Building at Upper Mills 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 greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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