The Old Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1985. House, mill. 1 related planning application.
The Old Mill House
- WRENN ID
- stony-chalk-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1985
- Type
- House, mill
- Address
- The Old Mill House, Old Church Lane, Melton, IP13 6DH
- OS grid reference
- TM 296 513
- Coordinates
- 52.11318, 1.35218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Mill House is a late 17th and early 18th century house with a disused water mill attached, forming an L-shaped layout. The original timber frame is now faced with red brick, dating to the early 19th century. The roofs are plain tiled and hipped, with red brick stacks. The west facade has a varied arrangement of windows, including sash windows in recessed frames with glazing bars, blind boxes, and gauged brick arches. A late 19th-century canted oriel window is located at the first floor of a gable projecting at right angles to the main range. Also on the west facade are mullion and transom casements with glazing bars, and a doorway featuring Ionic pilasters, an entablature, a six-panelled door, and an elliptical fanlight with radial glazing bars. The garden facade has a three-window range with sash windows in recessed frames, gauged brick arches, and a central doorway with Ionic pilasters, a heavily moulded semicircular arch with a key stone, a six-panelled glazed upper door, and a semicircular fanlight with Adam-style glazing bars.
Local climate
The Old Mill House 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- 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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