The Watermill, Attached House, Barn and Stables is a Grade II* listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. A C18 Watermill, house, barn, stables. 6 related planning applications.
The Watermill, Attached House, Barn and Stables
- WRENN ID
- long-gateway-ochre
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Watermill, house, barn, stables
- Address
- The Watermill, Attached House, Barn and Stables, Hunsonby, CA10 1NN
- OS grid reference
- NY 566 359
- Coordinates
- 54.71696, -2.67407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watermill is a water corn mill, along with an attached house, barn, and stables, dating from the mid to late 18th century. It has undergone later alterations and a restoration in 1975. The building features cement rendered sandstone rubble walls. The miller's house has a sandstone slate roof, while the mill has a graduated greenslate roof, and the stables are covered with Welsh slate, all topped with rendered chimney stacks.
The central miller's house is two stories high with two bays, and it is connected to a two-bay barn under a common roof on the right. To the left is a three-story, two-bay mill, and on the right is a former stable with three bays. The house has an off-centre panelled door in a plain opening and features sash windows, some of which are in original stone surrounds. The barn includes a segmental-headed doorway and a sash window beneath a loft doorway. The mill has a plank door and casement windows set in raised stone surrounds. The stables have central and right plank doors, along with 20th-century sash windows and a right loft doorway.
At the rear of the mill, there are two waterwheels that drive much of the original machinery inside. The Watermill is still a working water corn mill. For more detailed information about the mill machinery and its restoration, refer to "The Watermill, Little Salkeld, Cumbria: A Short Guide for Visitors," second edition 1982. The left barn attached to the mill is not of particular interest.
Local climate
The Watermill, Attached House, Barn and Stables sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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- 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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