Mill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Mill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solitary-ledge-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Mill Farmhouse, Barton Road: Mill Lane, Thurston, IP31 3QA
- OS grid reference
- TL 914 661
- Coordinates
- 52.25998, 0.8044
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mill Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the late 16th century. It is two storeys tall and features a two-cell end-chimney plan. The building is timber-framed and roughcast, with much of the ground storey walling rebuilt in plastered masonry. The roof is covered with double-Roman pantiles, which have been adapted to a gambrel form, likely in the 19th century; it was originally thatched.
On the left side, there is a 16th-century external gable chimney made of red brick, which has vestigial crowstepping, and the upper shaft was rebuilt in the 19th century. There is also an axial late 18th-century chimney of red brick. The windows are mid-20th century steel small-pane casements. The entrance features two 19th-century panelled doors positioned side-by-side, leading to a 20th-century porch with a plain tiled lean-to roof and glazed sides.
Inside, the hall has unchamfered floor joists laid flat. There is evidence of studwork with a diamond-mullioned window. The roof structure includes windbraced clasped purlins, and the rafters have been cut above the purlins and realigned at a lower pitch, possibly around 1800. Notably, a windmill once stood near the rear of the house.
Local climate
Mill Farmhouse 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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