THE OLD MILL

THE OLD MILL, MILL LANE

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

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254600
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: THE OLD MILL
Statutory Address:: THE OLD MILL, MILL LANE

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

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:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2002-08-14
Reference:: IOE01/07553/18
Rights:: © Mr Mel Ellis. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254600
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: THE OLD MILL
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD MILL, MILL LANE

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

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

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:: THE OLD MILL, MILL LANE

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

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Yealmpton
National Grid Reference:: SX5819951680

Details

SK5851 237-/4/10001

YEALMPTON MILL LANE (North Side) The Old Mill

GV II

Corn mill, extended or rebuilt, now partly disused. Late C18-early C19, extended and altered mid-late C19. Coarse limestone rubble with rubble dressings to roughly level with first-floor window heads, flatter rubble to upper floors over first-floor brick heads, rubble E gable external stack and slate roof, half-hipped to the mill. PLAN : L-shaped, W mill with wheel pit to W side, and E warehouse/store with single storey shed at E gable) 3 storeys; 2:3-window S mill gable and store elevation. EXTERIOR: Mill has a 3-window W elevation with the central section above first floor slightly recessed, windowless ground floor, rubble heads to first-floor casements, and second floor casements under the wall plate; late C19 concrete trough forms head race at first floor level to remains of the turbine which replaced the water wheel, above wheel pit. S gable has a raking canopy to a stable door, timber lintels to single ground, first- and second-floor casements, and C19 brick segmental arched casements to the right above a brick segmental archway; pigeon holes to second floor. Rear gable half-hipped with an upper casement. E side has 2 doorways and 2 ground-floor windows, one first-floor window, with stone arched heads and a small central second-floor light. Store has evenly-spaced ground-floor openings with stone heads and right-hand doorway, brick heads to first-floor casements and second floor casements under wall plate. Rear elevation has a central hoist bay with double doors to first and second floors under a hipped canopy on timber brackets, paired doorways either side with a further doorway to the left, with a single first- and second-floor window either side as the front. The end gable has coarse stone to a former first-floor gable with the square stack rising to the ridge; later single-storey shed with hipped roof attached to the end, with double doors to the N. INTERIOR: The upper storeys of the mill contain milling equipment including belt shafting from the turbine and second-floor corn bins either side of an axial cat walk, with considerable evidence in the walls and floors of the mill's former work. The former store divided lengthwise on the ground floor has animal stalls to the front and a stair at the E end, the first-floor has an axial row of C19 timber posts supporting the clear top floor. Mid-late C19 king post scissor trusses to both sections. HISTORY: A mill is indicated on the deeds from 1630, and marked on the 1841 Tithe map. The chimney may indicate an industrial use to do with drying. The mill pond stands to the NE and is connected to the mill by a brick leat. Despite the loss of the wheel and milling plant, this is a comparatively unaltered corn mill which has evidence of earlier uses. It forms part of a good early C19 group with the adjoining cart house and barn (qv), demonstrating the semi-industrial nature of agricultural practice at this time.

Listing NGR: SX5819951680

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 457559
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.