Tregargus Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1988. Mill.
Tregargus Mill
- WRENN ID
- last-lintel-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1988
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Tregargus Mill, St. Stephen-In-Brannel
- OS grid reference
- SW 949 539
- Coordinates
- 50.34951, -4.88417
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tregargus Mill is a former stone-grinding mill, built in the early to mid-19th century, with few later alterations. It operated until around 1965. The structure is made of granite rubble, featuring granite dressings and quoins. The roof was originally covered with slate and shingles, and has gable ends. The mill consists of two rectangular mill houses with a wheel pit in between. An overshot wheel was powered by a leat at the rear, with the tailrace running along the front of the mill houses.
Each mill house is two stories at the front, built into the bank, and single story at the rear. They have symmetrical fronts, each with two round-arched doorways at ground level, complete with keystones, and window openings above. The front is heavily overgrown. The centrally placed wheel is a cast iron wheel with a cast iron launder at the rear. The right gable end features a loading door at upper ground level, with a granite lintel and a small gabled hoist housing above the pulley wheel. The left mill house has two door openings and two small window openings at the rear, along with an unexplained circular stone rubble projection. The right mill house has similar door and window openings. Inside, no machinery remains; only the roof trusses survive, which are halved and bolted at the apex of the principal rafters.
Local climate
Tregargus Mill receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% 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 0.2°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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