Former Bobbin Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Mill.
Former Bobbin Mill
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-hammer-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Former Bobbin Mill, B 5285, Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 341 988
- Coordinates
- 54.38096, -3.01605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former bobbin mill, originally a flax mill, was built in 1786 and has since been converted into a house. It is constructed from stone rubble with some roughcast and features slate roofs. The building is located on the south side of a ravine, resulting in a one-storey height on the south side and four storeys on the north side. There is a one-storey gabled wing on the north side that includes a waterwheel at the gable end. Lean-to outshuts extend to the east, though they are partially obscured by trees.
The south gable end features an entrance and a small casement window, along with a projecting single pitch wing to the right, which has an end stack and a window with small-paned fixed glazing. The west elevation includes small-paned casements and an entrance to a low wing. The north gable end is roughcast and has small-paned pivoted casements for its windows. The gable end of the wing showcases a 9-meter diameter cast iron and wrought iron waterwheel. The east side also has some pivoted casements, along with a gable end stack and a stack in the roof slope. Inside, there is line shafting present in the wing.
Local climate
Former Bobbin Mill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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