The Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Mill house. 3 related planning applications.

The Mill House

WRENN ID
frozen-lantern-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
New Forest National Park
Constituency
New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1987
Type
Mill house
Address
The Mill House, Mill Lane, Boldre
OS grid reference
SZ 358 960
Coordinates
50.76276, -1.49305
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Mill House is a mill house with an attached mill and workshops, dating from the 18th century and extended in the 19th century. It is constructed of brick, with part of the house featuring tile-hung cladding on the first floor, and the roofs are covered with old plain tiles, except for the mill itself, which has a slate roof. The building includes a mill house, corn mill, saw mill, separating dairy, and estate workshops.

The layout consists of a two-storey, tall-roofed 19th-century mill attached to a two-storey, two-bay 18th-century mill. There is also a 1½-storey L-shaped mill house that was remodeled in the early 20th century, with a 1½-storey, three-bay wing against the end of the house. Along the rear of the main range, there is a single-storey double-pile workshop.

The main elevation features a 1½-storey house on the right-hand side with two bays. The left-hand bay has a half-hipped gable in line with the rest of the facade, while the right-hand bay is set back and has a half-hipped gable on the end. The first floor is jettied and tile-hung, with the left-hand bay featuring three-light casement windows. There is a ridge stack on the right-hand bay. To the left, the mill has segmental-headed paned windows on both floors and a raised band on the first floor. The left-hand 19th-century mill has large three-light windows on the first floor. Inside, there is a derelict iron Poncelet water wheel that once drove a pair of stones, a saw, and a separator for milk from the estate, whose butter was taken to the adjacent butter house dairy.

Local climate

The Mill House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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