Rashleigh Mill Cottage Including Outbuilding to South East is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Farmhouse.

Rashleigh Mill Cottage Including Outbuilding to South East

WRENN ID
unlit-garret-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 February 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Rashleigh Mill Cottage Including Outbuilding to South East, Wembworthy
OS grid reference
SS 662 131
Coordinates
50.9027, -3.90324
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rashleigh Mill Cottage, including the outbuilding to the southeast, is a farmhouse and former mill house that likely dates from the 18th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone rubble or cob stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and features a thatched roof.

The building is a long, low gable-ended range facing southwest along the road. The house, located at the northwestern end, has a two-room layout with a central staircase. The left room includes a large projecting rear lateral stack, while the right room has an axial stack positioned between it and the adjoining outbuildings. There are outshots at the rear, some of which may be original, including a late 19th to early 20th-century stack on the outshot behind the right room. The adjoining outbuildings on the southeastern side consist of three byres or stores with haylofts above, and they are two storeys tall.

The house features irregular fenestration with four windows on the ground floor and two on the first floor, all of which are late 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The thatch eaves rise over the first-floor window at the right end. There is a roughly central 19th-century part-glazed six-panel door, which has a 20th-century monopitch hood covered with corrugated iron. The left gable end has a first-floor casement with glazing bars. The thatch eaves slope down from the house to the adjoining outbuildings. The left byre or store is blind at the front, the central one has only a front door, and the right one features a front ventilator and a ground-floor double doorway with a loading hatch leading to the hayloft above.

Inside the house, most of the features reflect late 19th and 20th-century modernizations. The right room has an exposed, roughly finished crossbeam that is likely from the 18th century. The carpentry in the left room is plastered over, and both fireplaces are blocked. The roof has not been inspected.

Local climate

Rashleigh Mill Cottage Including Outbuilding to South East 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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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