Town Mills and Wall Fronting Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1975. Mill, farmhouse.

Town Mills and Wall Fronting Garden

WRENN ID
solemn-transept-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 November 1975
Type
Mill, farmhouse
Address
Town Mills and Wall Fronting Garden, Mill Lane, Milverton
OS grid reference
ST 121 263
Coordinates
51.02973, -3.25442
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Town Mills is a disused corn mill, along with an attached millhouse that is now a farmhouse. The farmhouse dates back to the 17th century, while the mill is likely from the 18th century. The farmhouse has a rendered facade, and the mill features a painted random rubble exterior, with red sandstone random rubble on another elevation. The farmhouse has a slate roof, while the mill has a corrugated iron roof. The structure is arranged in an "L" plan, with the mill to the north and the farmhouse to the east.

The farmhouse, which faces east, is two stories high and has four bays. It features sash windows, with casements on the first floor to the right and a 20th-century sash window below. The entrance is through a partially glazed six-panel door to the left. The mill is also two stories, with four 20th-century windows on the first floor and a door on the left end. The ground floor has six-light casements flanked by a door to the right and a round-headed opening for the mill wheel on the left. The undershot cast iron mill wheel remains in place, along with some of the machinery.

To the east, there is a single-storey lean-to cartshed. A low red sandstone random rubble wall with saddle stone coping encloses the triangular garden site. A mill has existed on this site since before the Domesday Book survey, and it is believed to be the origin of the town's name, Milverton.

Local climate

Town Mills and Wall Fronting Garden receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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