Mills Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Farmhouse.
Mills Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- wild-alcove-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Mills Farmhouse, Dennington Road, Laxfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 290 710
- Coordinates
- 52.28946, 1.3566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mills Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring a two-cell front range with an additional wing at the rear. The front has two windows with 18th-century small-paned casements and a central axial stack that has a rebuilt shaft. The entrance door, located in the rear wing, is from the mid-20th century.
Inside, the ground floor of the front range has one room with an ovolo-moulded bridging beam and joists set on edge. The opposite room and both first-floor chambers have ceilings with cross beams, also ovolo-moulded. In the chambers, there are two well-crafted three-centre arched brick fireplaces and intact studding with reversed bracing. The end section of the rear range is part of a second wing, likely built around the same time. The ground floor of the rear wing has been somewhat altered and includes many re-used timbers, with one floor beam dated 1675.
Local climate
Mills Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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