Head Mill is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. Mill-house.
Head Mill
- WRENN ID
- dusted-kitchen-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Mill-house
- Address
- Head Mill, Chittlehamholt
- OS grid reference
- SS 666 182
- Coordinates
- 50.94798, -3.89967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Head Mill is a mill-house that includes accommodation for the miller, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from unrendered snecked stone rubble and features a slate roof with gable ends. There is a rendered stack located towards the rear left end. The building has a rectangular plan, with the mill wheel positioned at the front of the left-hand long side and an integral miller's house that has a single storey and attic outshut on the right-hand side. Both the mill and the miller's house have entrances on the shorter gabled front.
The structure is two storeys high with an attic storey and has a three-window range. The left end has three-light windows with six panes per light, while the two windows to the right are rectangular leaded lights with fifteen panes each. On the ground floor, there are two three-light casements with six and eight panes per light, both situated to the left of a large undershot wheel, which has an inspection door above it. The right gable end features a boarded gabled sack hoist projection at the top storey with a two-light window containing six panes per light. The first floor has projecting pulley wheels on either side of one three-light window and a two-light window.
The ground floor left end has a plank stable door, and there is a wide stable plank door with a chamfered door surround and a slate leanto porch roof, flanked by a three-light window with six panes per light on the left and a two-light casement with three panes per light on the right. There is also a gabled half dormer at the rear, which was formerly a loading door, and slate leanto porch roofs over two doors at the left gable end.
Inside, the mill machinery is intact, including three sets of grinding stones. This building is a well-preserved example of a mill, complete with its wheel and machinery, and features an integral miller's house that remains largely unaltered.
Local climate
Head 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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