Ashford Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1987. Watermill, house.

Ashford Mills

WRENN ID
ragged-basalt-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 October 1987
Type
Watermill, house
Address
Ashford Mills, Puckington
OS grid reference
ST 358 188
Coordinates
50.96579, -2.91526
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ashford Mills is a watermill and house that likely dates back to the 17th century. The building features a mix of ham stone rubble, some ashlar, and rendered work on the house, which has a corrugated iron sheet roof with bargeboarded gables. The mill has a Welsh slate roof and brick chimney stacks. The structure is arranged in a 'T' plan. The house is two storeys tall with three bays. It has three-light leaded casement windows of an early pattern, with iron-framed central opening lights and labels over the lower windows. There is a boarded door in a heavy frame located in the lower bay 2. A lean-to is attached to the south gable, and a cast-iron pump is found on the north side of the house.

The mill extends from the rear of the house and has a north-west elevation that is three storeys high, with an attic and four bays. Bay 1 features a door below and a small leaded casement at the second floor level. Bay 2 includes a three-light horizontal-bar casement on the ground floor and a six-spoke cast-iron mill wheel adapted as a window on the first floor. Bay 3 has a door below and a two-light horizontal-bar casement on the first floor. Bay 4 contains a door, a part-leaded three-light casement on the first floor, and a small two-light casement on the second floor. Between bays 3 and 4, there is a cantilevered corrugated iron-clad sack-hoist on timber brackets, topped with a pitched roof. The interiors have not been seen.

Local climate

Ashford Mills receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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