Town Mill is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1978. Water mill.
Town Mill
- WRENN ID
- south-threshold-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1978
- Type
- Water mill
- Address
- Town Mill, Mill Road, Okehampton, EX20 1PR
- OS grid reference
- SX 590 949
- Coordinates
- 50.73724, -3.99892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Mill is an early 19th-century water mill located on Mill Road. It is a tall building constructed of stone rubble with granite quoins and features a low-pitched slate roof with gabled ends. The mill has three storeys and an attic. On the second storey, there are three iron-frame windows with glazing bars and small opening lights, while the ground floor has two similar windows. The first floor has central doors and loading doors above, equipped with a hoist. There is also an iron-frame attic window in the gable end. At the north end of the mill, there is an overshot iron water-wheel inscribed "J Luxton, Heatherleigh 1882." The internal machinery has been removed. In the 19th century, this mill was one of three in Okehampton and is likely situated on a medieval site.
Local climate
Town Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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