Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. House.
Mill House
- WRENN ID
- errant-portal-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mill House, Mill Lane, Copdock and Washbrook
- OS grid reference
- TM 122 419
- Coordinates
- 52.03511, 1.09272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill House is a mill house dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, with early 17th century and later alterations. It is timber framed and rendered, with a 20th-century brick plinth and plaintile roofs. The building consists of mainly two sections. The left section has two bays and two storeys with a jetty, featuring some exposed frame, a moulded bressumer with pierced decoration, and replaced ground floor studs. There are two 2-light 20th-century casements on each floor. The right section also has two bays and two storeys, with two similar 3-light casements and two 2-light full dormer casements. A 20th-century boarded door is located in the left-hand corner beneath a large brick stack.
Inside, the left-hand frame is exposed, showcasing long halved bracing. The axial beam and some transverse beams and joists have double ogee moulding with run-out stops. There is a rear window opening with shutter grooves, and some first-floor windows are blocked but also have shutter grooves. The interior features a moulded cornice and a fireplace bressumer. The crown post roof includes a square post and longitudinal braces. The left stack of early brick is intact, while the right stack has been partly rebuilt. The right-hand first cell has a thinner frame with broach stops to the chamfered beams. Over the fireplace, there are apparently reused spandrels from an ogival-headed doorway, with one spandrel depicting a half-female, half-angel figure playing an instrument, and the other showing a cat playing pipes and a drum, each surrounded by decorative motifs. The end cell has been largely rebuilt.
Local climate
Mill House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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