Mill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Farmhouse.

Mill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
rough-bastion-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Mill Farmhouse, Church Lane, Stonham Parva
OS grid reference
TM 114 601
Coordinates
52.19897, 1.09206
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mill Farmhouse is a former farmhouse with an early 15th-century core that has undergone alterations in the late 16th and 19th centuries. The building is two storeys high, constructed from timber framing and roughcast, topped with a pantiled roof. It features red brick chimneys, including an end chimney to the parlour from around 1600, which has a decorative diaperwork pattern made with burnt headers, and an axial chimney from the 18th or 19th century.

The farmhouse has various 19th and 20th-century casement windows, and the entrance door, which has four panels, is part of a 19th-century extension. Inside, there is a central two-bay open hall from the 15th century, with most of the upper bay intact and part of the lower bay remaining. The open truss is fully exposed, and an inserted upper floor was removed in the 20th century. It features a cambered tie-beam with massive arch-braces rising from shafts and a coupled-rafter roof that is heavily smoke-encrusted. One of the hall windows has a transom and diamond mullions in the upper light.

The doorway leading to the parlour has a four-centred arched head, and the close-studding lacks visible bracing. The parlour cell was rebuilt in the late 16th century, showcasing roll-moulded joists and an ovolo-moulded and channelled main beam. There are two lintelled fireplaces flanked by a newel staircase and garderobes on each floor, along with two doorways that have depressed arched heads. The roof features a two-tier butt-purlin design. The service cell of the 15th-century house was rebuilt in the 18th or early 19th century, incorporating original components.

Local climate

Mill Farmhouse 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 lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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