Stapley Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1986. Corn mill, dwelling.
Stapley Mill
- WRENN ID
- eternal-floor-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1986
- Type
- Corn mill, dwelling
- Address
- Stapley Mill, Churchstanton
- OS grid reference
- ST 186 134
- Coordinates
- 50.91443, -3.15924
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stapley Mill is a corn mill and miller's house, now a dwelling, built around 1850 on the site of an earlier mill and altered in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed of squared and coursed chert stone with a slate roof, featuring coped verges and a finial on the gable end of the mill. There are brick stacks located on the left gable end and to the right of the entrance. The structure has an L-plan layout facing south, with the former mill on the east front, which includes the remains of a waterwheel at the north gable end. The tack room on the west gable end has been converted into a loggia.
The mill is two storeys high with three bays on one side and one bay on the gable fronted end to the left, which is adorned with decorative bargeboards and a sundial that resembles one found at Churchinford Baptist Chapel. The windows are 16-pane sash windows with dressed voussoirs, except for a 12-pane window above the entrance and an inserted arch head window in the single-storey loggia end bay to the left. There is also a slate-roofed gabled porch with decorative bargeboards and 20th-century glazed infill, featuring a half-glazed door. At the rear, the remains of the waterwheel frame can still be seen.
Local climate
Stapley Mill 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 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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