Bidlake Mill is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. Watermill. 1 related planning application.
Bidlake Mill
- WRENN ID
- woven-rubblework-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Watermill
- Address
- Bidlake Mill, Bridestowe, EX20 4ED
- OS grid reference
- SX 485 880
- Coordinates
- 50.67241, -4.14402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bidlake Mill is a 17th-century watermill located in Bridestowe. Constructed of slate rubble with a scantle slate roof gabled to the right end and half-hipped to the left, it has a chimney made of four upright slates. The mill follows a rectangular plan, with one room on each floor including an overshot water wheel against the rear wall. Water is delivered to the wheel via wooden launders. The front elevation is asymmetrical, incorporating a wide doorway on the left and a small window to its right. A doorway on the right-hand side leads to a first-floor room, built into the hillside. Internally, some original roof trusses remain, with lapped and pegged collars and mortices for threaded purlins, though these have been considerably repaired. The mill machinery appears to survive intact. Originally used for grinding corn until the 1930s, the water wheel was subsequently geared for carpentry machinery and remained in use until 1956.
Local climate
Bidlake 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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