Holbrook Mill Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1972. A C19 Mill and mill house. 1 related planning application.

Holbrook Mill Mill House

WRENN ID
fading-beam-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1972
Type
Mill and mill house
Address
Holbrook Mill Mill House, Church Road, IP9 2QN
OS grid reference
TM 169 357
Coordinates
51.97808, 1.15791
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holbrook Mill and Mill House consist of a 19th-century mill and an 18th-century mill house, with earlier origins. The mill features a timber-framed road face with weatherboarding and a brick plinth, topped by a grey slate roof. It has three storeys and a basement, with a rear section made of painted brick and a lean-to roof covered in red plain tiles, which is two storeys high.

The mill house, likely from the 18th century, is faced with cement set with clinker and has a red plain tiled gambrel roof with four dormers and bargeboards on the gables. The rear left and right ends are made of red brick and include chimneystacks. The mill house has two storeys and attics, featuring a four-window range of three-light casements. The central entrance is a vertically-boarded door with an egg and dart moulded surround and a moulded pediment.

The ground floor is below road level, and access to the front door is via a flight of stone steps with cast iron handrails. The forecourt is enclosed by hooped railings attached to the front right of the mill. The mill's depressed gable faces the road, and its roof is hipped at the rear. The upper floor includes a lucam with a lean-to and a hoist door in the floor. Below the lucam, there is a drop ladder fixed to the wall, next to a two-light casement window with centre transoms.

On the ground floor to the right, there is a halved door and a workshop window with six lights and two transoms. The right return adjacent to the house has two or three-light casement windows on each floor and a multi-light workshop window in the basement. The left return features various windows, and there is a 20th-century door to the right.

Local climate

Holbrook Mill Mill House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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