Weycroft Mill and Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1983. Water mill, mill house. 2 related planning applications.
Weycroft Mill and Mill House
- WRENN ID
- unlit-terrace-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1983
- Type
- Water mill, mill house
- Address
- Weycroft Mill and Mill House, Axminster, EX13 7LH
- OS grid reference
- SY 306 998
- Coordinates
- 50.7945, -2.98488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a water mill, associated mill buildings, and a miller's house, dating back to the 18th century with 19th-century additions, possibly built on a medieval mill site. The mill house is constructed of roughcast stone with a gable-ended slate roof, two storeys high, and features a three-window front. It has two and three-light casement windows with glazing bars, and a central door and window sheltered by a canopy. A loft door is located to the right. Adjoining the mill house to the left (north) is a two-storey, two-window stuccoed addition from the 19th century.
The mill itself adjoins the house to the south and east. The original 18th-century stone rubble watermill has a roughcast exterior and has been heightened with corrugated iron. To the rear (east), a long range of stone rubble construction with a corrugated asbestos roof extends the complex. A mid-19th century steam mill addition is located to the southeast, built of red brick with a slate roof, and features two storeys, a three-window front, iron-frame windows with segmental heads and small central opening lights, and a brick chimney stack at the southeast corner. Internally, the original water mill machinery remains, although the undershot wheel has been replaced by two turbines installed by Armfield and Company of Ringwood, Hampshire.
Local climate
Weycroft Mill and Mill House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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