Mill and Chimney Adjoining Prowse's Villa is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1986. Mill.
Mill and Chimney Adjoining Prowse's Villa
- WRENN ID
- hidden-pedestal-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1986
- Type
- Mill
- OS grid reference
- ST 113 198
- Coordinates
- 50.97138, -3.26403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building known as Prowse's Mill is a disused textile mill and chimney, dating from around 1800, with the chimney constructed in the mid to late 19th century. It is built of red sandstone random rubble with a plinth of dressed stone voussoirs, topped with a slate roof and coped verges. The mill faces south and has a cottage attached to its south-east corner, which is not included in this listing. To the east are the remains of an engine house and the chimney.
The mill is three storeys high and has two bays, featuring segmental headed 8x6-pane sash windows that are boarded up internally, with many panes of glass broken. On the left side, there are four segmental headed sash windows on the upper storey, along with remnants of a shaft drive wheel; the lower storey is obscured by the remains of an outbuilding. The right side has a square headed loft opening flanked by semi-circular headed windows, and there is an inserted doorway on the first floor, while the ground floor entrance is concealed by brick outbuildings that extend north to the chimney.
Inside, there are shallow brick vaults supported by cast iron columns. The remains of the red brick engine house are only partially visible, and the red brick chimney is square in plan, flaring out at the base, with a dog tooth moulded plinth and a moulded cornice.
Local climate
Mill and Chimney Adjoining Prowse's Villa receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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