Paradise Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1976. Watermill. 1 related planning application.
Paradise Mill
- WRENN ID
- fallen-gargoyle-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1976
- Type
- Watermill
- Address
- Paradise Mill, Paradise Lane, High Ham, TA10 0DA
- OS grid reference
- ST 427 284
- Coordinates
- 51.05286, -2.81752
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Paradise Mill is an 18th-century former watermill with a house, modified subsequently. It is constructed of local lias stone, cut and squared, with double Roman clay tile roofs, the higher roof featuring clay sawtooth ridge tiles. Gables are plain, and the building has brick chimney stacks. The mill comprises two units, each two storeys high with attics and two bays wide. The unit facing southwest, towards the waterside, is taller and includes a lean-to on the first bay and a later lean-to garage against the south gable. This unit has small horizontal bar casement windows and boarded doors to both levels, a stable door to the second bay, and dormer windows above. A small leaded window in an iron frame is set in the return. The lower unit has a 16-pane casement window to the lower bay and a stable-type door to the second bay, with an adapted casement window above. Timber lintols are present above all openings. Later extensions have been added to the rear. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Paradise Mill receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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