The Victoria Mill Waterwheel and Sluice is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. A 19th century Waterwheel and sluice.

The Victoria Mill Waterwheel and Sluice

WRENN ID
sombre-zinc-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1974
Type
Waterwheel and sluice
Period
19th century
Address
The Victoria Mill Waterwheel and Sluice, Buxton Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 216 688
Coordinates
53.21585, -1.67751
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Victoria Mill waterwheel and sluice, located on the north-east side of Buxton Road in Bakewell, is a Grade II listed structure. The sluice dates from the early 19th century and may have been modified to fit a waterwheel constructed around 1850. It is made of dressed gritstone and features iron machinery and the waterwheel itself. The rectangular sluice has intact regulating devices designed for the undershot wheel. The axle mountings and spur wheel are still present. The tail race flows beneath a basket arch into a tunnel under the mill yard. The waterwheel is a dilapidated 8-spoke wheel made of cast and forged iron elements, measuring approximately 4 meters wide and 5 meters in diameter, and is currently stored out of the water.

Local climate

The Victoria Mill Waterwheel and Sluice 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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