Barbour’s Mill, Mill Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT36 is a Grade D1 Record Only listed building in the Antrim and Newtownabbey local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Barbour’s Mill, Mill Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT36
- WRENN ID
- eastward-nave-lark
- Grade
- D1 Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Constituency
- Belfast North MP: John Finucane (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 344 802
- Coordinates
- 54.65228, -5.91767
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a substantial, seven-storey red brick flax spinning mill and associated buildings. The site originally housed Grimshaw’s cotton mill, constructed in the early 1800s. The original mill was demolished, and the adjoining mill ponds have been infilled. The site is currently undergoing redevelopment for use as warehouse-type retail outlets.
Local climate
Barbour’s Mill, Mill Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT36 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- No flood data for this area
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Mill, adjacent to 63 Derryleckagh Road, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3RB
- 2 Flax Store and Weigh Room, Gilford Mill, Ann Street, Gilford, Craigavon, Co Down, BT63 6HX
- 3 Former flax mill, NW of 69 Newry Rd, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5AL
- 4 Flax Mill, Ballymagart Mill, Ballyardle Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co. Down, BT34 4JX
- 5 Former Flax Spinning Factory, 1 Knockamore View, Muckamore, Co. Antrim, BT41 2EU
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