Millbeck Towers Cottages and Water Authority Storeroom is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Water-powered mill, house, storeroom.
Millbeck Towers Cottages and Water Authority Storeroom
- WRENN ID
- upper-crypt-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- Water-powered mill, house, storeroom
- Address
- Millbeck Towers Cottages and Water Authority Storeroom, Underskiddaw, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 256 262
- Coordinates
- 54.6258, -3.15258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Millbeck Towers Cottages and Water Authority storeroom is a water-powered fulling mill that has been converted into two houses and a storeroom. It was built in 1805 and underwent some alterations in the 20th century for John Daniel Banks. The building features roughcast walls beneath a graduated greenslate roof, with brick chimney stacks.
The storeroom is two storeys high and has four bays, with an additional two-bay recessed extension. The converted houses are three storeys tall, with two bays each. The storeroom has plank doors and steps leading up to a loft doorway. The windows throughout include casement styles with glazing bars, some containing 30 panes, all set in plain reveals. The houses have 20th-century doors and sash windows in plain reveals, while the original mill windows are located on the top floor. The rear of the building has similar doors and windows. For further historical context, see Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, volume vii, pages 159-160.
Local climate
Millbeck Towers Cottages and Water Authority Storeroom sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
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