Mill at Approximately 4 Matres East of Lower North Coombe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Mill.

Mill at Approximately 4 Matres East of Lower North Coombe Farmhouse

WRENN ID
crumbling-paling-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1985
Type
Mill
OS grid reference
SS 877 043
Coordinates
50.82779, -3.59576
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The mill, located approximately 4 metres east of Lower North Coombe Farmhouse, is now used as a store and is believed to date from the 17th century. It features partly rendered and painted stone rubble and cob walls, topped with a corrugated asbestos roof that was formerly thatched. The roof has a gable end on the left (north) and a hip that sweeps lower to the right. Originally, the mill likely consisted of two rooms, with a larger room in the middle and south. The waterwheel was originally located at the rear of this wider section.

The irregular west front includes a doorway on the left, which has an oak jamb and a cambered head, although it now has a later planked door. The only window on the first floor to the right is a 3-light unglazed oak window featuring two stop-chamfered mullions. The interior is currently an open space on the ground floor, with no machinery remaining, but the uneven rear wall, which incorporates timber lacing, shows significant evidence of its previous use. The roof structure has not been inspected.

Local climate

Mill at Approximately 4 Matres East of Lower North Coombe Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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