Mill House, Orleigh Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. Mill house.

Mill House, Orleigh Mill

WRENN ID
worn-hammer-finch
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
Mill House, Orleigh Mill, Buckland Brewer
OS grid reference
SS 437 223
Coordinates
50.97963, -4.22722
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mill House, formerly known as Orleigh Mill, is a house that dates from the late 17th century, with possible earlier origins. A cross wing was added to the left in the mid to late 18th century, and an early 19th-century range was added to the right. The central 17th-century house features colourwashed render over cob and stone, while the 18th and 19th-century extensions are made of rendered coursed slatestone rubble. The building has a gabled slate roof, with a 17th-century lateral stack at the front made of rendered stone and a mid-19th-century brick ridge stack.

The original 17th-century house has a two-unit plan that was extended to form an L-plan in the 18th century. The early 19th-century two-storey range to the right is symmetrical with three windows and has segmental stone arches over a plank door and late 19th-century plate-glass sashes. The central 17th-century two-storey range features flat rendered arches over a 20th-century window above a late 19th-century plate-glass sash. The gable end of the 18th-century wing to the left has a late 19th-century plate-glass sash above a segmental stone arch over a two-light casement, and there is a late 19th-century four-panelled door, two of which are glazed, in the right side wall. An outshut to the left contains an 18th-century plank door set in a chamfered wood frame. There is also a 17th-century stair outshut at the rear.

Inside, the cross wing to the left features an 18th-century plank door leading into the front room. There is a stop-chamfered 17th-century beam and 17th-century newel stairs at the rear. The interior also includes two A-frame trusses, each with trenched purlins and ridge purlins set in notched apexes.

Local climate

Mill House, Orleigh Mill receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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