Leawood Mill is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. Mill, house.

Leawood Mill

WRENN ID
shifting-buttress-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Type
Mill, house
Address
Leawood Mill, Bridestowe
OS grid reference
SX 518 889
Coordinates
50.68116, -4.09802
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Leawood Mill is a mill and mill house dating from around the mid-19th century. It features local stone rubble walls and a gable-ended slate roof. The building has two rubble stacks, one located axially between the house and the mill, and the other at the gable end of the mill building. The structure has an L-shaped plan, with the house projecting to the front and the mill building extending to the right, where its wheel was originally located on the rear wall.

The house is two storeys high with an attic and has a double-depth layout, likely consisting of two original rooms. The entrance is at the gable end, leading into a small lobby. The front of the house has a regular arrangement of two windows, featuring 19th-century small-paned casements. On the ground floor to the left, there is a 20th-century part-glazed door. A blocked second-floor window is positioned at the centre of the gable, and all openings are topped with granite lintels.

On the inner face of the mill, there is a door to the left, accompanied by a window to its right and a three-light 19th-century casement window above. The rear elevation of the mill only retains the axle of the mill wheel. Inside, some of the stone drive machinery remains, with wooden edges to the wheels. Two grinding stones are preserved, with one reportedly used for grinding corn and the other for animal feed.

Local climate

Leawood Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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