Former Flax Mill Immediately North of Flaxdrayton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1988. Flax mill.
Former Flax Mill Immediately North of Flaxdrayton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- first-gutter-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1988
- Type
- Flax mill
- Address
- Former Flax Mill Immediately North of Flaxdrayton Farmhouse, South Petherton
- OS grid reference
- ST 452 159
- Coordinates
- 50.94021, -2.78094
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former flax mill, now used as furniture workshops, dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed of cut and squared ham stone with ashlar dressings and features Welsh slate roofs with coped gables. A tall, square brick chimney with a stone base and tapered stone cap is located on the north side. The main building is mostly two storeys high, with the north-west elevation displaying three bays of irregular fenestration, including a projecting stack to the right of the third bay. There is a 20th-century window in the upper part of the first bay, while the other windows are small-pane cast-iron with segmental-arched heads, set in rectangular timber frames beneath timber lintels.
To the north, there are two extensions featuring large sliding doors, but the first unit retains matching windows. Additional extensions to the south-west are set slightly lower. Inside the courtyard, the south-east elevation of the last unit includes a three-bay office with staggered doors in the centre bay, the upper door set in a segmental-arched opening within a gabled dormer. An iron staircase spans across the third bay, leading to a door in the south-west gable of the main wing. Attached to the south-east side of the main block are two further buildings, a hayloft and a barn, both with parallel roofs. The interior has not been seen, but it is understood that some machinery remains from when the mill closed in 1931.
Local climate
Former Flax Mill Immediately North of Flaxdrayton Farmhouse 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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