The Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1952. A C19 Former water mill. 1 related planning application.
The Mill
- WRENN ID
- high-terrace-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1952
- Type
- Former water mill
- Address
- The Mill, Totnes Road, TQ2 6XA
- OS grid reference
- SX 893 638
- Coordinates
- 50.46374, -3.55965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mill, formerly known as the Water Mill to Granary, is a late 19th-century water mill located on Totnes Road in Cockington, now functioning as a cafeteria. The wheel, dated 1878, likely has older origins and has undergone significant restoration in the 20th century, reflecting a style associated with Sir Edwin Lutyens. The building is constructed of local stone rubble and features a thatched roof.
It is a long structure oriented on a north-west/south-east axis, with an overshot wheel situated on the south-west side. The south-east end is set into the hillside and includes a wide loading doorway from the terrace. There are external stone steps leading to a first-floor doorway on the north-east side.
The building has two storeys and has been extensively restored in the 20th century. While many of the openings are likely original, they now contain 20th-century windows and a doorway. The stone steps are also from the 20th century and feature a niche with a basin over a small ornamental pond. The north-west end has a full-height opening that has been blocked, with ranges of windows on each floor. The cast-iron wheel bears the founders' mark of H Beare and Sons from Newton Abbot, dated 1878. The roof is hipped at both ends, with wide eyebrows over the openings.
The interior has been remodeled in the 20th century, including the roof. Remnants of ancillary mill buildings are located to the south-west and north-west but are not included in the listing. The Mill is part of a particularly attractive group of listed buildings in this unspoilt village, adjacent to Cockington Park.
Local climate
The Mill receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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 0.3°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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