Watermill About One Metre North of Granary South of Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1979. Watermill.
Watermill About One Metre North of Granary South of Castle
- WRENN ID
- waiting-keep-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1979
- Type
- Watermill
- Address
- Watermill About One Metre North of Granary South of Castle, Lostwithiel
- OS grid reference
- SX 099 582
- Coordinates
- 50.39327, -4.67546
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This watermill, located about one metre north of a granary south of the castle, dates from the early 19th century and incorporates part of an earlier building on the right. The structure appears to have been built in three phases, showcasing different types of stonework. It is constructed from slatestone rubble with granite dressings and quoins, topped with a hipped slate roof featuring ridge coping tiles. The rear wing has a gable end and a corrugated asbestos roof.
The overall layout is T-shaped, with a central rear wing housing the water wheel. The mill is built into a bank at the back, providing rear access to the loft above the main front range. A leet runs along the front left side of the building. The front facade features three doors at ground floor level and two loading doors above. The right side of the ground floor is made of random rubble with large granite quoins, while the upper level has smaller random rubble, showing a straight joint to the left where the building is in rubble with cut granite quoins. The left side includes a loading door at the upper level.
At the rear, granite steps lead to a door accessing the loft on the left side of the main range. The rear wing has a chamfered corner on the left and an opening leading to the wheel pit, along with an opening in the rear wall of the main building for the wheel housing. There is also a single-storey rubble lean-to set at an angle to the rear wing on the right, which includes a door at the back. The interior has not been inspected, so it is unknown whether any of the machinery remains.
Local climate
Watermill About One Metre North of Granary South of Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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