Preston Mill is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. Mill-house, corn watermill. 4 related planning applications.
Preston Mill
- WRENN ID
- winter-ledge-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1986
- Type
- Mill-house, corn watermill
- Address
- Preston Mill, Keldheads Lane, Preston-Under-Scar, DL8 4AG
- OS grid reference
- SE 078 907
- Coordinates
- 54.31259, -1.88097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Preston Mill is a mill-house and corn watermill, built in 1784 and now converted into two dwellings and a farmhouse. The structure is constructed of rubble stone with slate roofs. The house and mill are set at right angles to each other.
The house is three storeys high with three first-floor windows. A rear wing extends from the main block. The central entrance has a board door within an ashlar surround, which features rounded inner corners to both the lintel and the imposts. Most window openings are topped with monolithic lintels and contain 20th-century casement windows, except for the original 3-light side-sliding sash window in the top right-hand corner. The house has shaped kneelers and ashlar copings, with stacks positioned at each end and between bays two and three. A kneeler on the front left-hand side is inscribed “IRI:H. 1784”.
The mill projects to the right and is also three storeys high with three first-floor windows, along with a two-storey extension to the front. It features four-pane sash windows, shaped kneelers, an ashlar coping, and an end stack to the front.
Local climate
Preston Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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