High Mill is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Watermill.
High Mill
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-hammer-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- Watermill
- Address
- High Mill, Mill Lane, West Ayton, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 987 849
- Coordinates
- 54.2503, -0.4856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Mill is a watermill located on Mill Lane in West Ayton, dating from around 1800, although it has earlier origins. The building is constructed from coursed rubble sandstone with hammered stone dressings and has a slate roof. It features a three-storey central block with three windows, flanked by two-storey pent wings, and a rebuilt single-storey lean-to on the left side. The structure has irregular quoins and a central board stable door with a divided overlight leading into the three-storey block. There is a wide cart opening with a heavy timber lintel in the left wing and a similar opening in the lean-to. The right wing originally housed the undershot mill wheel. The mill has pivoting windows, some of which have been replaced while others retain their original iron glazing bars. All openings are framed with heavy lintels and quoined jambs. The central opening on the second floor is blocked by a recessed panel carved with the Hewlay arms. The gables are coped, and there is a stack at the left end. Inside, cast iron fluted columns with caps and bases support the floor beams on all upper floors, and iron brackets remain as strengthening members for the roof trusses.
Local climate
High Mill receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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