Hoxne Watermill is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. Watermill.
Hoxne Watermill
- WRENN ID
- upper-lantern-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- Watermill
- Address
- Hoxne Watermill, Watermill Lane
- OS grid reference
- TM 189 778
- Coordinates
- 52.35517, 1.21391
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hoxne Watermill is a watermill dated 1846. The building features a white brick ground floor, with a timber-framed and weatherboarded upper section; the boarding is painted white on the west and south sides, while it is tarred on the other two sides. It has a slated roof and stands three storeys high with a loft, arranged in a rectangular plan of three by three bays. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, segmental arched on the ground floor and three-quarter height on the second floor.
On the west side, there is a central boarded half-door beneath a four-centred brick arch, along with a loading door at the first floor. The south gable end features a boarded door and two blind doorways, all under four-centred arches, as well as a boarded loading door on the first floor. Additionally, there is a gabled lucam with drop finials on the south side, supported by curved wooden brackets.
At the rear, there is a contemporary red brick steam mill, which has been reduced in height, but retains an intact tall tapering square chimney with a corbelled cap. The machinery inside, including an iron undershot waterwheel, is still intact. A datestone located on the northwest corner is inscribed with 'PRIMUS LAPIS HUJUS MOLAE AQUATILIS POSTUS EST 29 DIE AUGUS MDCCCXLVI LIEUT GENL SIR E KERRISON BART MP'.
Local climate
Hoxne Watermill 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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