Danby Mill is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1990. Water mill.
Danby Mill
- WRENN ID
- vacant-portal-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1990
- Type
- Water mill
- Address
- Danby Mill, Ainthorpe Lane, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- NZ 707 083
- Coordinates
- 54.46537, -0.91036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Danby Mill is an early 19th-century water mill located on the west side of Ainthorpe Lane in Danby. The building is constructed from coursed herringbone-tooled sandstone and features a graduated Lakeland slate roof with stone dressings. It stands four storeys high and has three bays.
The ground floor includes a studded stable door at the bottom right, set under a heavy lintel, and a small window at the bottom left. On the first floor, there are two small windows above the door and a larger window to the left. Each upper floor has three evenly spaced windows. Although all windows now have modern joinery, the casements include glazing bars that are in keeping with the building's character. At the right end of the structure, there is a stepped and corniced chimney, and the gables are coped on kneelers set above the eaves level.
To the left of the main building, there is a low wheelhouse that still contains the water wheel. Access to the interior was not possible at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Danby Mill receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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