The Watermill is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1974. A C19 Watermill, public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Watermill
- WRENN ID
- vast-paling-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1974
- Type
- Watermill, public house
- Address
- The Watermill, Pateley Bridge, Bewerley, HG3 5HL
- OS grid reference
- SE 147 664
- Coordinates
- 54.09347, -1.77577
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watermill, a water-mill and former public house, was built around 1860. A water wheel was installed in 1904. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with a grey slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has twelve bays. A modern gabled porch is located in bay 9, with a glazed archway to the right. The ground floor has 20-pane, centre-hinged windows, with two four-pane sash windows to the far right. The first floor has 16-pane, centre-hinged windows, all with projecting sills and plain lintels. Stone gutter brackets are present. The roof features gable coping, end stacks, and a ridge stack in bay 9. A large water wheel is attached to the left gable end, with stone steps leading to the hub and header tank. Originally known as Foster Beck Mill, the mill was built in 1864 and initially used for spinning twine or linen yarns; it later produced twine. It ceased operation in 1966, by which time the wheel was driven by a diesel engine. The water wheel is a 30 horse-power high-breast shot wheel with a rim drive, measuring 35 feet by 5 feet.
Local climate
The Watermill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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