Wickham Mill is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. Watermill. 2 related planning applications.
Wickham Mill
- WRENN ID
- graven-barrel-twilight
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1966
- Type
- Watermill
- Address
- Wickham Mill, High Street, Wickham Market
- OS grid reference
- TM 306 566
- Coordinates
- 52.15956, 1.37085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wickham Mill is a watermill located on Wickham Market High Street, dating from the late 18th century. The building is timber framed and weatherboarded, with white brick on the ground floor except at the rear, and features a plaintiled roof. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has three windows with small pane sashes in flush frames, along with a boarded door on the left side. A weatherboarded lucam is present at the gable end. The mill's machinery is complete and in working order, including a cast iron breast-shot waterwheel, cast iron wheelshaft, pitwheel, and wallower, as well as a wooden upright shaft and a good all-wood compass-arm spurwheel with cast iron stone nuts. There are three pairs of overdriven millstones with circular casings located on the first floor. Wickham Mill is noted for being a particularly fine and unaltered example of a watermill, contributing to an important traditional grouping of mill buildings.
Local climate
Wickham Mill sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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