Newsham Mill is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. A C17 Water mill.
Newsham Mill
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-nave-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1987
- Type
- Water mill
- Address
- Newsham Mill, Mill Lane
- OS grid reference
- NZ 109 099
- Coordinates
- 54.48471, -1.83327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Newsham Mill is a disused watermill, partly converted into a pottery, likely built in 1656 with later alterations. The structure is made of rubble with a stone slate roof and has two storeys with two openings on the first floor. The building features quoins and a ground floor that includes, from left to right: a small low-level opening for the gearing chamber; added external stone steps; a blocked single-light window with a dressed stone surround; a board door beneath a deep, irregularly-shaped lintel supported on imposts, with graffito "DL" on the left and two recessed panels on the right, one damaged and inscribed "[I]656" and the other "WI 1807", along with strange symbols between the panels; and a larger single-light window with a dressed stone surround.
On the first floor, there is a board door under a timber lintel and a sash window with glazing bars, also under a timber lintel. The roof has two roof lights. To the right, there is a single-storey outbuilding that is not of special interest. The left side of the mill displays the cast-iron skeleton of an overshot water-wheel, while the right side has a recessed panel on the quoin inscribed "WH 175[?]".
Inside, the ground floor contains a pitwheel and spur-gearing in a wooden hurst with an ark, while the first floor features a pair of peak stones in a tun, a drive to an oat dresser, and a mechanism for a sack-hoist. The mill remains almost complete and represents an early phase of corn watermills in North Yorkshire.
Local climate
Newsham Mill receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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