Old Mill House and Watermill is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House, watermill.

Old Mill House and Watermill

WRENN ID
crooked-step-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Type
House, watermill
Address
Old Mill House and Watermill, Church Road, Little Glemham
OS grid reference
TM 356 582
Coordinates
52.17217, 1.44431
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Mill House and Watermill is a house and adjoining disused watermill located on Church Road in Little Glemham. The house likely has an early 17th century timber framed core, which is encased in early 19th century red brick. It features a pantiled roof, stands two storeys high with an attic, and has a three-window range with two-light and three-light small pane casements set under segmental arches. The doorway is asymmetrical, featuring a six-panel door and a rectangular fanlight within a gabled brick porch. There is one internal stack.

The watermill dates from the mid to late 18th century and is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a gambrel roof that is clad in early 20th century corrugated iron. It also has two storeys and an attic, and its machinery is intact. Notable features include a fine internal breast-shot waterwheel made of composite materials (wood and iron) with six pairs of wooden arms, an oak wheelshaft, a composite pitwheel, an iron wallower, a wooden spurwheel, a crownwheel, one wooden and two iron stone nuts, and three pairs of underdriven millstones, along with an external pulley for engine drive.

Local climate

Old Mill House and Watermill 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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