Bratton Mill

BRATTON MILL

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Explore this list entry

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1105627
Date first listed:
07-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Bratton Mill
Statutory Address:
BRATTON MILL

Have you got a photo to share?

Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places. 

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

Icon Buildings
Icon Scheduled monuments
Icon Parks and gardens
Icon Battlefields
Icon Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Local Heritage Hub

Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.

Discover more

Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1105627
Date first listed:
07-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Bratton Mill
Statutory Address 1:
BRATTON MILL

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BRATTON MILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Bratton Clovelly
National Grid Reference:
SX 46731 91977

Details

BRATTON CLOVELLY BRATTON CLOVELLY SX 49 SE

7/18 Bratton Mill -

- II

House and former mill. The house may have some late C17 fabric extended in the C18 with the mill dating to the circa late C18. Stone rubble walls, rendered on the house. Asbestos slate roof hipped to the left end of the house, gabled to the mill. Brick axial stack to house, originally at gable end. The house originally had a 2-room and cross passage plan with the left-hand room heated by a gable end stack. It was extended to the left in the C18 although initially this addition was probably a barn. The mill is later than the house but may replace an earlier structure. It is at right angles of rectangular plan with a large room on each floor and the wheel housed within the structure at the rear in a separate compartment divided by a solid wall. Its wheel was overshot and the leat ran in from the right. The mill is now disused and its wheel has been removed. The house is 2 storeys; the mill was originally 3 storeys, but has had its upper floors floors removed and is now single storey. The Mill has a gable end 2-window front of which only the ground floor left-hand and second floor central window retain their frames of C19 2-light casements. Wide doorway at centre. The house is to its left, its original part to the right, has a 2-window front of C19 2-light casements with small panes. Central C20. Plank door behind C20 rusticated porch. Lower addition at left-hand end has irregular small window openings with a slit window at the left-hand end. Interior of original house has large open fireplace whose lintel is obscured by C18 wood surround and mantel. The mill has lost its original machinery and wheel.

Listing NGR: SX4673191977

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
94273
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Bratton Mill

Map

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 18-Jun-2026 at 14:46:10.

Download a full scale map (PDF)
© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. Use of this mapping is subject to Terms and Conditions.

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.

Previous Overview
Next Comments and Photos