The Mill is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. Watermill.
The Mill
- WRENN ID
- scattered-moulding-ochre
- 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
- The Mill, East Lane, Ufford
- OS grid reference
- TM 301 523
- Coordinates
- 52.12127, 1.36124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mill is a watermill dating from the 18th century, constructed with a timber frame and covered in clapboard. It features a gambrel roof, with plain tiles on the lower pitch and pantiles on the upper. The building has two storeys and an attic.
On the river-facing side, there is a mill race on the left with a cambered head that encloses a mid-20th century cast iron waterwheel, which is underdriven. To the right of the waterwheel is a cross window. The first floor has a six-panel doorway on the right, decorated with nailhead detailing; the central two panels were formerly glazed but are now boarded over. This door is accessed by a 20th-century oak staircase.
The right gable end features a glazed door on the ground floor and a three-light window on the first floor, along with a lucam that has a window of four by four panes. The left gable end has a central ground floor door. At the rear, there is a lean-to sun porch with clapboarded sides, which has three openings to the front supported by chamfered posts, and a doorway to the rear wall. On the first floor to the left, there are two two-light casements.
Inside, the mill includes a wooden wheelshaft with a pitwheel, and a wooden upright shaft that supports the wallower and compass-arm spurwheel. However, the millstones and their drive are missing.
Local climate
The 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 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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