Caladonian Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1994. Warehouse. 1 related planning application.
Caladonian Mill
- WRENN ID
- grim-jamb-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1994
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Caladonian Mill, Backhouse Walk, CA3 8AN
- OS grid reference
- NY 400 556
- Coordinates
- 54.89241, -2.93634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Caledonian Mill is a warehouse that was once converted to a mill and is now partly used as offices and a showroom. It dates from the 1840s and is constructed from coursed red sandstone on a chamfered plinth, featuring flush quoins and a stone-bracketed gutter. The building has a slate roof and retains vestiges of end stone chimney stacks, along with an external full-height chimney at the rear.
Due to its location on a slope, the building has five storeys at the rear and four storeys facing Backhouse Walk. The facade consists of 12 bays, with an off-centre loading bay that includes doors on each floor and a gabled hoist head above. There are doorways on the left and right sides of the ground floor, as well as regularly spaced casement windows, many of which are boarded over, all set within stone surrounds. The rear of the building is similar to the facade, although some windows have been replaced with 20th-century versions.
The interior has not been inspected. The building is depicted in Asquith's Survey from 1853. Plans for the addition of drying kilns from 1885 and 1886, when it was used as an oatmeal mill, are held at the Cumbria County Record Office.
Local climate
Caladonian Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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