Longnor Sawmill is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. Sawmill.

Longnor Sawmill

WRENN ID
carved-baluster-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 February 1967
Type
Sawmill
Address
Longnor Sawmill, Heathylee, Staffordshire Moorlands
OS grid reference
SK 084 646
Coordinates
53.17905, -1.87466
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Longnor Sawmill is an early 19th-century sawmill constructed from coursed stone with ashlar quoins and block dressings, topped with a blue tile roof, of which one-third remained at the time of the survey. The building features a two-storey, six-bay front arranged in a 1-2-1-2 pattern, with later gabled two-storey projections to the left and center. The central section has verge parapets and end stacks with moulded capping. The first floor has round-arched window openings with fixed lights and keystones above, while the ground floor has round-arched entrances of various sizes, except for the right-hand bay, which contains an additional round-arched door and a square-headed window. The projecting wings have smaller, irregularly placed rectangular lights.

Inside, there is a cast iron overshot wheel housing and running gear, fed from the rear, along with some later transmission gear and a vaulted mill race return. The mill has had multiple uses, including as a sawmill and a bone crushing mill. At the time of the survey in June 1984, it was undergoing restoration and rebuilding.

Local climate

Longnor Sawmill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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