Lower Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Warehouse.
Lower Mills
- WRENN ID
- rough-finial-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Lower Mills, Darshill, Shepton Mallet
- OS grid reference
- ST 606 439
- Coordinates
- 51.19307, -2.56479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Mills is a mill that has been converted into a warehouse, dating from around 1800. The building features a rendered exterior with squared quoins and a modern pantile roof. It has an "L" plan layout and stands two stories high with a five-bay facade that is oriented at right angles to Darshill. The facade includes a square-headed doorway with a 20th-century door, flanked by modern casement windows. The first floor has mullion windows with two and three lights, which lack mouldings and are mostly blocked, except for the one on the right. There is a flanking wing at right angles to the main front, which is of similar size and has the same type of mullion windows. Additional mullion windows can be found on the right return facing Darshill. At the rear, there is an early 19th-century doorcase featuring a triangular pediment supported by Ionic pilasters, suggesting it may have been the former millhouse. Lower Mills is notable as one of the few complete mills that still exist in the area.
Local climate
Lower Mills receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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