J Strong and Son Clog Markers (Blanket Mill) is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. Watermill.

J Strong and Son Clog Markers (Blanket Mill)

WRENN ID
frozen-latch-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 January 1986
Type
Watermill
Address
J Strong and Son Clog Markers (Blanket Mill), Caldbeck, Cumberland
OS grid reference
NY 323 397
Coordinates
54.74781, -3.05241
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

J Strong & Son Clog Makers, also known as the Blanket Mill, is a watermill that was originally built as a threshing mill and later converted into a woollen blanket mill in the early 19th century. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with raised red sandstone quoins and features a graduated grey slate roof. It is three storeys tall and has a T-shape design.

The left portion of the building has a large segmental cart entrance surrounded by an alternate-block pattern. Above this entrance are two steel casement windows set in red sandstone surrounds. The right portion features a ground floor plank door in an alternate-block surround, with a similar doorway above it that is accessed by external stone steps. The first and second floors also have steel casement windows in red sandstone surrounds, and similar windows can be found at the rear of the building.

Inside, the ground floor retains a wheel pit complete with a cast iron wheel and most of the original machinery, which is also present on the first floor, where it is currently used as a clog makers' workshop. The building is marked as a woollen mill on the 1900 Ordnance Survey map.

Local climate

J Strong and Son Clog Markers (Blanket Mill) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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