Roscarrack Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. Watermill.

Roscarrack Mill

WRENN ID
bitter-entrance-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 November 1988
Type
Watermill
Address
Roscarrack Mill, Roscarrack Road, Budock
OS grid reference
SW 787 314
Coordinates
50.14141, -5.09808
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Roscarrack Mill is a watermill with an integral miller's house, built around 1872. It features roughly coursed killas with granite dressings and has dry Delabole roofs that are hipped at the front part of the millhouse and half-hipped over the rear end of the mill. The chimneys are located over the rear wall of the house. The building has a T-shaped plan, with a two-room plan miller's house at the front that includes a central lobby and stair, and a one-room plan mill at right angles behind the middle, built into the bank on the left.

The mill houses a large overshot iron water wheel, which is the third largest in Cornwall, located in the wheel-pit behind the mill. This water wheel was reportedly used to drive machinery that pumped water up to Roscarrack House. The exterior is two storeys high and features a symmetrical three-window southeast front for the miller's house, with a central doorway that has an original flush-panelled door. The windows are original 12-pane hornless sashes, also found at the left-hand end. The south mill front exhibits Gothic style features, including a granite ashlar plinth, a four-centred arched doorway on the right with chamfered jambs and head on both sides, and a three-light chamfered mullioned window on the left and above. The original iron wheel on the left has iron spokes and rim segments, although the wooden buckets have been removed. The interior has not been inspected, and there is no machinery currently in the mill.

Local climate

Roscarrack Mill receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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