Rice Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. A C17 Mill, house. 2 related planning applications.

Rice Mill

WRENN ID
stranded-landing-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1988
Type
Mill, house
Address
Rice Mill, Alverdiscott, EX39 4PU
OS grid reference
SS 506 257
Coordinates
51.01203, -4.13079
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rice Mill is a mid to late 17th-century millhouse that has been converted into a house. It features colourwashed render over cob and stone, with a gabled thatch roof. The building has a rendered stone ridge stack and a similar external stack on the left end, which includes a bread oven. The layout follows a three-unit lobby-entry plan and consists of two storeys with a four-window range. There is a 19th-century flat hood with carved brackets above a 19th-century plank door located to the left of the centre. The windows are 20th-century three-light casements, and there is an outshut to the right with a pantile roof.

Inside, the central room includes a chamfered beam and a chamfered bressummer above an open fireplace, along with two 19th-century cupboards featuring H-hinges. A 19th-century quarter-turn staircase with winders is located to the right.

Local climate

Rice Mill receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 1 transaction since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • 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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