Water Mill on Left Return of Mill Batts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1988. Mill.
Water Mill on Left Return of Mill Batts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- over-moat-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Stockton West MP: Matt Vickers (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1988
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Water Mill on Left Return of Mill Batts Farmhouse, the Green, Great Burdon
- OS grid reference
- NZ 317 166
- Coordinates
- 54.54442, -1.51098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water mill on the left return of Mill Batts Farmhouse is a corn-grinding mill that was formerly water-powered, dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It features a dressed stone plinth and narrow brickwork in English garden wall bond, with a ridged concrete roof on the main block and pantiles on the lean-to bay. The building is three storeys high with three bays, including a lower lean-to bay on the left return. It has a tall projecting plinth, a Dutch door on the right, and scattered sash and casement windows in altered openings. The steeply-pitched roof has a chimney stack at the right end. The lean-to bay has a segmental brick arch over the mill race, which formerly housed the water wheel in an ashlar-lined channel.
Inside, the mill wheel has been removed, but there is operational machinery by G. Hauxwell of Durham, dated 1863, and three pairs of grindstones in wooden cases on the first floor. There are 20th-century additions on the right bay and rear, and the farmhouse on the right return is not of special interest. The mill is still occasionally used, powered by a stationary engine.
Local climate
Water Mill on Left Return of Mill Batts Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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