Ashford Bobbin Mill, West Building is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1984. Bobbin mill.
Ashford Bobbin Mill, West Building
- WRENN ID
- worn-granite-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1984
- Type
- Bobbin mill
- Address
- Ashford Bobbin Mill, West Building, Buxton Road, Sheldon, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 182 696
- Coordinates
- 53.22366, -1.72869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ashford Bobbin Mill, West Building, is a bobbin mill constructed around 1870 and restored around 1979. It is built from coursed limestone rubble with punched gritstone dressings and quoins. The roof is slate with overhanging eaves and features wooden ridge finials. There is a stone stack on the rear wall. The building has two storeys and three bays. The central entrance has a flush doorcase with a plank door, and there are windows with punched stone surrounds on either side. Above the entrance, there are two similar 2-light mullion windows. On the east and west sides, there are metal waterwheels. The building is listed for its historical interest.
Local climate
Ashford Bobbin Mill, West Building sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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