Old Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Cottage.

Old Mill House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1978
Type
Cottage
Address
Old Mill House, Upper Street, Stanstead
OS grid reference
TL 843 490
Coordinates
52.10946, 0.69121
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Mill House is a red brick cottage dating from the 18th century or early 19th century, located on the west side of Upper Street in Stanstead. The building is one storey high with attics and features small casement windows. The doors are boarded, with one door having an open gabled hood adorned with ornamental bargeboards. The roof is thatched and includes two gabled dormers, which also have ornamental bargeboards similar to those on the doorway hood. The cottage has one end chimney stack and one central chimney stack.

Local climate

Old Mill House 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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