Abbey Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Dwelling. 2 related planning applications.
Abbey Mill House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-hammer-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Dwelling
- Address
- Abbey Mill House, Abbey Road, Old Cleeve, TA23 0PS
- OS grid reference
- ST 046 404
- Coordinates
- 51.15551, -3.36417
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Mill House is a corn mill and miller's house that has been converted into a dwelling. It dates from the 17th century and stands on the site of an earlier mill. The building was altered in the 18th century, enlarged in the mid-19th century, and had its windows changed in the late 20th century. The exterior is rendered over rubble with a hipped slate roof. The structure is L-shaped, with the mill on the right and the house on the left, both under one roof, and an addition at the rear. It has two storeys and five bays, featuring irregularly placed windows, including 20th-century metal casements. The loft door is located in the centre, with a three-light casement window to the left of the entrance and a stable door to the right. The entrance has remnants of a raised and fielded panel door with inserted lights and a 20th-century porch. The loft door is also found in the right return gable end.
Inside, it appears that the building was originally designed as two cells with a cross passage, with the right half serving as the mill and an attached two-bay shelter shed that once housed a waterwheel, which has since been removed. The walls were raised in the 18th century, possibly when the shelter shed was incorporated into the building, which now functions as a garage. The main interest of Abbey Mill House lies in the large amount of milling machinery that remains, largely unchanged since milling operations ceased in the 1940s. This property is located on the site of the mill associated with Cleeve Abbey.
Local climate
Abbey Mill House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 2 applications
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