Ford Millhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1950. House.

Ford Millhouse

WRENN ID
quiet-stair-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 July 1950
Type
House
Address
Ford Millhouse, 48, Ipswich Road, Stowmarket
OS grid reference
TM 051 579
Coordinates
52.18168, 0.99885
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ford Millhouse is a house that was formerly connected to a watermill on the south side. It dates from the mid-18th century and has been altered in the late 20th century. The building features a plastered and colourwashed timber frame with a pantiled roof and a baffle-entry plan. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window front. The central entrance is a late 20th-century half-glazed door set within a reeded doorcase that has corner roundels and a plain hood. There are 20th-century three-over-three sash windows on both sides of the door and on the first floor as well. The roof is bell-based and gabled, previously having a dormer, and there is a ridge stack located to the left of centre. The north gable jetties at both the first and attic floors. At the rear, there is a full-height outshut, a stack positioned to the left of centre, and 20th-century windows.

Local climate

Ford Millhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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