Rashleigh Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Mill. 1 related planning application.
Rashleigh Mill
- WRENN ID
- tattered-wicket-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1986
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Rashleigh Mill, Wembworthy, EX18 7BE
- OS grid reference
- SS 663 132
- Coordinates
- 50.90297, -3.90259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rashleigh Mill is a late 19th-century wheat and barley mill constructed from exposed stone rubble with a slate roof, which is said to have originally been thatch. The building is a gable-ended, three-storey block with a south-facing gable front. This front features a first-floor plank door to the right, accessed by external wooden steps and a porch that now has a corrugated iron roof. There is a projecting timber loading hatch at the gable. On the right (eastern) side, there is a door to the ground floor and a 19th-century casement window with glazing bars on the first floor.
Inside, the south end of the mill is built over a now-disused leat and still houses the cast-iron water wheel with timber shutters. The ground floor contains the gearing, while the first floor features the complete mill machinery, including mill stones and a silk flour sieve. The structure displays plain carpentry details, although the roof has not been inspected.
Local climate
Rashleigh Mill 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- 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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