Horner Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Mill. 1 related planning application.
Horner Mill
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Horner Mill, Luccombe, Somerset, TA24 8HY
- OS grid reference
- SS 898 453
- Coordinates
- 51.19696, -3.57716
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horner Mill is a disused corn mill from the mid-19th century, likely built on the site of an earlier structure. It features red sandstone random rubble and a steeply pitched double-span pantiled roof, with some glazed pantiles. There is a separately roofed lower wing on the left and a tall stone stack at the rear. The building has a parallel range with an overshot waterwheel at the west end and a two-bay wing at the east end, situated on a slope that descends to the west.
The main block is three stories high, while the wing is two stories. It has 19th-century leaded wooden casements, some of which were in poor condition at the time of the survey in July 1984. The left side features two 2-light windows, and on the ground floor, there is a segmental-headed 3-light window to the right of a stable door. The second floor of the main block has two 3-light windows, and there is a catslide roof over a projecting bay to the right. The first floor has two 3-light windows beneath a pantiled pentice roof supported by corbelled projections, along with a segmental-headed loft opening. The ground floor includes a 5-light window in a pantiled projection, a door to the right, and double doors in a projection with weatherboarding on top, along with a projecting plinth that creates a platform in front of the mill. The right return shows the remains of the overshot wheel. Although the interior was not seen, it is said to contain remnants of mid-19th-century shaft machinery and the waterwheel machine.
Local climate
Horner Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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