Castle Mill and Attached Gateway and Gate is a Grade II* listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Mill. 2 related planning applications.

Castle Mill and Attached Gateway and Gate

WRENN ID
fossil-chimney-soot
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 May 1969
Type
Mill
Address
Castle Mill and Attached Gateway and Gate, Mill Lane, Dunster, Somerset
OS grid reference
SS 991 433
Coordinates
51.18033, -3.44476
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Castle Mill, along with its attached gateway and gates, is a late 17th century structure that was largely rebuilt between 1779 and 1782. It features a rendered exterior and a slate roof with end gables, a recessed center, and gabled projecting side wings with slated verges. The building has two storeys plus attics. The central section includes two gabled, slate-hung dormer windows and three-light metal casement windows in wood frames with leaded lights. On the first floor, there is one three-light metal casement window with leaded lights to the left and a stable-type plain boarded door with a hoist to the right. The ground floor has similar windows and doors. Each side wing has one window per floor, with a quatrefoil attic window featuring leaded glazing. The first floor of the left-hand wing has a two-light pointed arch window with intersecting tracery and a single metal casement. The ground floor of the left-hand wing has a four-light mullioned window set in a recessed three-centred arched opening, while the right-hand wing has a plain boarded door in a comparable opening. At the east end, there are twin wooden overshot water wheels. The interior retains mill machinery that is still in working order. A rubble wall with brick dressing extends from the south-east angle of the mill, featuring a pointed arch opening with wrought-iron gates and a lancet opening above, topped with a moulded stone finial.

Local climate

Castle Mill and Attached Gateway and Gate sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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