Upton Mill House and Mill and Attached Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1976. Water mill, house. 3 related planning applications.

Upton Mill House and Mill and Attached Bridge

WRENN ID
lost-porch-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Constituency
Northampton South MP: Mike Reader (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1976
Type
Water mill, house
Address
Upton Mill House and Mill and Attached Bridge, Upton Lane, NN5 4UY
OS grid reference
SP 720 592
Coordinates
52.22632, -0.94603
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Upton Mill House and Mill, along with the attached bridge, is a water mill and house dated 1815, with alterations made in the 20th century. The building is constructed from coursed squared ironstone and features a slate roof with brick end and ridge stacks. It has a four-unit plan and stands three storeys tall with a four-window range. The main facade faces the mill pond to the south and includes stable doors at the center and far left, both with wood lintels. There is a plank loft door on the first floor to the left, also with a wood lintel, while the ground and first floors are fitted with two-light casement windows, again with wood lintels. The structure has a plinth, quoins, and stone-coped gables with kneelers. A datestone inscribed with the initials TSWS and the year 1815 is located on the right gable, referring to Thomas Samwell Watson Samwell. To the right of the center is the domestic part of the building, which has a two-storey lean-to extension at the rear and a 20th-century entrance on the right side. In front of the mill and house, the road crosses the mill-stream via an attached elliptical-arched ironstone bridge. It is noted that the mill machinery has been reported as removed.

Local climate

Upton Mill House and Mill and Attached Bridge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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