Bow Mill House, with Attached Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1958. Mill house, watermill. 3 related planning applications.
Bow Mill House, with Attached Mill
- WRENN ID
- still-mantel-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1958
- Type
- Mill house, watermill
- Address
- Bow Mill House, with Attached Mill, TA18 7QG
- OS grid reference
- ST 458 134
- Coordinates
- 50.91794, -2.77238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bow Mill House, with an attached mill, is a mill house and watermill dating from the late 17th century, with some rebuilding following a fire in 1862. The building features stone ashlar and has an undulating roof covered with plain clay tiles over stone slate base courses, topped with tall coped gables that suggest a former thatched roof. There are brick chimney stacks. The structure has an 'L' plan and consists of two storeys with attics, with the west elevation displaying five bays.
The windows are hollow-chamfered mullioned types set in chamfered recesses, with configurations of 3, 2, and 3 lights on the first floor in bays 3, 4, and 5, respectively. The ground floor features a 4-light window in bay 3 and a 3-light window in bay 5, the latter being the only one with a separate label. Bays 3 and 4 share a label, with bay 4 also having a cambered-arched doorway that contains a pair of earlier 19th-century doors with toplights. Bay 1, which houses the mill, has a door at first floor level accessed by stone steps, while bay 2 has a part-glazed door on the ground floor.
The south elevation is similar and consists of three bays, with a gable on bay 1. It features a 2-light window in the attic, a 3-light window on the first floor with labels, a 2-light window without a label in ground floor bay 1, 20th-century French doors in lower bay 2, and a 3-light mullioned window with a label in ground floor bay 3. There is a leanto at the rear and a ground floor extension to the mill building that has a stone access stair leading to a door on the north gable. The interior was not seen, but the mill wheel and leat were still present in 1977. This mill was first recorded in 1373, and the current building may have been constructed following John Pitts' purchase in 1669. The mill was significantly damaged by fire in 1862 but was rebuilt, and it appears to have ceased commercial use after 1896.
Local climate
Bow Mill House, with Attached Mill receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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