Water Wheel Approximately 35 Metres South of West Chapple Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Water wheel, wheel house.
Water Wheel Approximately 35 Metres South of West Chapple Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- salt-arch-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Water wheel, wheel house
- OS grid reference
- SS 615 082
- Coordinates
- 50.85741, -3.96803
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a water wheel and wheel house located approximately 35 metres south of West Chapple Farmhouse, dating from the mid to late 19th century. The wheel house features rubble walls topped with a single pitch corrugated asbestos roof. Inside the wheel house, there is a large iron overshot water wheel situated in a pit. An iron drive shaft extends from the wheel up the hill to the farm buildings, which are about 100 metres away.
Local climate
Water Wheel Approximately 35 Metres South of West Chapple Farmhouse 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 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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