Kingswood Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1998. A C19 Water mill and mill house.
Kingswood Mill
- WRENN ID
- lone-sill-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1998
- Type
- Water mill and mill house
- Address
- Kingswood Mill, Stogumber
- OS grid reference
- ST 104 376
- Coordinates
- 51.13131, -3.28093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kingswood Mill is a water mill and mill house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and features slate roofs with gabled ends, along with axial brick stacks that have rebuilt brick shafts. The building is L-shaped, with the house located to the west and the mill in the east wing, which includes a water wheel on the east side.
The mill stands three storeys tall and has asymmetrical elevations that feature renewed casement windows, some of which have cambered arches. The north front of the mill has a ground floor doorway on the right, with a loading door above it, both fitted with plank doors. An iron overshot water wheel is located on the east gable end.
Inside, the mill retains its wooden machinery, including a 2-step or spur-wheel drive with two pairs of millstones and their tuns. It has a large wooden hurst frame, an upright shaft with a single spur-wheel and crown-wheel, all made of wood. The stones floor and bin floor are supported by stop-chamfered beams, and the roof features a king-post and tenoned-purlin construction. The house has a tenoned-purlin roof and includes a large fireplace with a cambered timber bressummer and an oven.
Kingswood Mill is situated on the Doniford Stream.
Local climate
Kingswood Mill receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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