Millhill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Millhill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- wild-chalk-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Millhill Farmhouse, Somerton Road, Hartest, IP29 4NA
- OS grid reference
- TL 826 524
- Coordinates
- 52.14011, 0.66806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Millhill Farmhouse is a 15th to 16th century timber-framed and plastered house, originally designed as a hall house, featuring a cross wing at the west end. The building underwent renovation and restoration in the 20th century, which included modern panel pargetting in traditional patterns on a brick base. It has two storeys and 20th century casement windows, some of which are set in original window openings that include internal shutter grooves. The roof is tiled, and at the west end, there is a large external chimney stack with tabled offsets, with the base being original.
Inside, the farmhouse showcases very heavy, closely spaced timber framing. Both the main block and the cross wing include tie beams with braced crown posts. Additionally, at the east end, there is a well-preserved 16th to 17th century timber-framed barn that has been incorporated into the house, featuring modern brick facing and a pantiled roof.
Local climate
Millhill Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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