The Old Mill is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1986. Water-mill.

The Old Mill

WRENN ID
ruined-cellar-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 April 1986
Type
Water-mill
Address
The Old Mill, Millgate, Masham
OS grid reference
SE 229 808
Coordinates
54.2228, -1.64901
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Mill is a water-mill that has been converted into two houses. It dates from the early 18th century and early 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed rubblestone with ashlar dressings and features a graduated stone slate roof.

The central section of the mill is three storeys high and has three first-floor openings. To the left, there is a two-storey, three-bay block, and to the right, a two-storey outshut. The central section has a modern six-panel door with an overlight on the left and a modern opening to the right. The other openings are original, featuring modern casements with stone lintels. Notably, the ground-floor opening on the right bears the inscription 'Thomas Webster Milner Anno Dom 1706'. The second floor, which dates to the early 19th century, has quoins and two small square openings. The roof is hipped, and there are end stacks.

The left-hand block has irregular fenestration with 20th-century casements and a boarded door to the right, with the roof hipped to the left. The outshut has quoins and a segmental arch with voussoirs above the original wheel race, with 20th-century casements above.

Local climate

The Old Mill receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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