Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1954. House. 2 related planning applications.
Mill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scarred-footing-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mill Cottage, Woolpit Road, Drinkstone
- OS grid reference
- TL 964 620
- Coordinates
- 52.2219, 0.87419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill Cottage, formerly listed as Mill House, is an early 19th-century mill house located on Woolpit Road in Drinkstone. It is a single-storey building with attics and features a three-cell plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a glazed pantiled gambrel roof that has an axial chimney made of red brick, along with another chimney at the gable end. The cottage has three segmental-headed dormers with sash windows, as well as casement and sash windows throughout. The entrance features a panelled door beneath an open gabled porch with a slated roof supported by posts. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Mill Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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