High Mill and Attached Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1990. Water mill, house.

High Mill and Attached Mill House

WRENN ID
fading-marble-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1990
Type
Water mill, house
Address
High Mill and Attached Mill House, Mill Lane, Church Houses, Farndale East, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SE 668 970
Coordinates
54.36465, -0.97325
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High Mill and the attached Mill House are a water mill and house built in the early 19th century. The structure is made of dressed stone and features a pantile roof, a red brick stack, and a stone gable stack, along with stone coped gables. The mill building stands three stories tall, while the mill house, located to the northwest, is slightly later in construction.

On the southwest front of the mill, there is a doorway with a plank door to the left and a single two-light window to the right. Above this are two similar windows, and above again are two smaller single-light windows. The mill house to the left has a central glazed 20th-century door flanked by two-light casements, with two similar casements above.

The northeast front of the mill, built into the hillside, is only two stories high and features a central boarded doorway along with two small shuttered openings above. The mill house to the right has a central doorway, with a three-light casement to the left and a small fixed light to the right, followed by a two-light casement. Above this, there are a three-light and a two-light casement. All openings are topped with large flush stone lintels.

To the southeast, there is a single-storey addition attached to the gable front, which may have been a stable. This addition has a plank stable door and a window, with a single window on each floor above.

Inside, the mill contains a wheel house and wheel pit at the southeast end, where the wheel shaft remains, although the original wheel has been replaced by a small iron wheel. The mill features cast iron hurst gears and wooden shafting that runs through three floors. Notably, there is a reputedly unique hurst drive on the top floor, consisting of wooden pegs driven into wooden discs that form a primitive bevel gear. A mill has been recorded on this site since 1276.

Local climate

High Mill and Attached Mill House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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