Kemyel Mills (Upper Mill Building) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. A Post-medieval Watermill.
Kemyel Mills (Upper Mill Building)
- WRENN ID
- late-pewter-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1988
- Type
- Watermill
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Kemyel Mills (Upper Mill Building), St. Buryan, Lamorna and Paul
- OS grid reference
- SW 446 246
- Coordinates
- 50.06694, -5.56944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kemyel Mills, also known as the Upper Mill Building, is a watermill that likely dates back to the 18th century. It features granite moorstone rubble walls with some dressed moorstone and has a grouted scantle slate roof at the rear, which has been replaced with corrugated asbestos at the front. The building has gable ends and a fairly small rectangular plan, built into the bank that carries the leat at the rear. There is a circa late 19th century overshot wheel at the right-hand end, but no internal machinery remains.
The exterior is low with two storeys and an irregular two-window south-west front that has very small window openings. There is a doorway slightly left of the middle with a window to its left. The window in the left-hand gable end is a reused millstone fragment. The right-hand end features a small window above the wheel, flanked by two smaller openings. The wheel itself has a cast-iron hub and segments, with oak spokes.
Inside, the building has a simple layout with a 19th-century roof structure and sockets for a former floor structure at the right-hand end, along with another niche. The machinery has been removed.
Local climate
Kemyel Mills (Upper Mill Building) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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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