Low Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1977. Corn watermill. 1 related planning application.
Low Mill
- WRENN ID
- vast-keep-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1977
- Type
- Corn watermill
- Address
- Low Mill, Village Green, Bainbridge, North Yorkshire, DL8 3EF
- OS grid reference
- SD 934 902
- Coordinates
- 54.30788, -2.10203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Mill is a corn watermill dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. It is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof. The mill is two storeys high, with a basement and loft. The gable front has two bays and features quoins.
The elevation facing Village Green has, on the ground floor, modern board garage doors and a board door. The first floor has two small-paned fixed-light windows flanking a glazed door, which was formerly a loading door and is set beneath a stone slab lintel. Above the lintel is a fanlight with radial glazing bars set within a semicircular arch of rubble voussoirs with a hoodmould. Above this is a wooden beam with a pulley-wheel. A fixed-light window with glazing bars and a semicircular-arched head of rubble voussoirs with hoodmould is set in the gable. Projecting through-stones are visible on the side and rear elevations.
Internally, the mill has deep timber beams. The original waterwheel is a low-breastshot type, and it drives spur-wheel gearing. Original mill equipment includes two pairs of millstones and wooden furniture, as well as a drying-kiln.
Local climate
Low Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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 — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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