Base of Town Mill is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. Mill base.
Base of Town Mill
- WRENN ID
- ancient-newel-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1985
- Type
- Mill base
- Address
- Base of Town Mill, Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 403 100
- Coordinates
- 50.87329, -0.00642
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The base of the Town Mill is a 19th-century structure located at the foot of Race Hill in Lewes, where the mill was relocated from Pipe Passage in 1835. It is constructed of painted brick and features a tiled roof. The building has a tall, battered octagonal shape topped with an octagonal roof. Broken cast-iron brackets are visible at the eaves, indicating the former level of a walkway around the mill. On the west side, there are two segment-headed openings, and a 20th-century garage door is present on the ground floor to the east.
Local climate
Base of Town Mill receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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