The Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. House.
The Mill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-forge-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Mill Cottage, Meavy, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 539 672
- Coordinates
- 50.48657, -4.06038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mill Cottage is a house that was originally the miller's residence, dating from the early to mid-19th century. It features stone rubble walls with brick dressings and a half-hipped slate roof, along with two brick end stacks. The building has a rectangular double-depth plan, with the main heated rooms located at the front; the right-hand rooms are larger, while smaller service rooms are at the rear. A central entrance hall leads to stairs at the back, which are slightly projected.
The cottage is two storeys high and has an almost symmetrical two-window front, with a blocked or blind window at the center on the first floor. It retains original two-light casements with small panes and H-L hinges, and a three-light casement to the right on the ground floor. The doorway, which is slightly to the left of center, features a gabled door hood and a 19th-century plank door. All openings are adorned with brick arches. Notably, the blocking of the first-floor window includes a grotesque carved stone face, which may have originated from the nearby church. At the rear, there is a shallow rectangular stair projection at the center. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Mill Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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