Tower Mill, 350 Metres South East of White House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. Mill.
Tower Mill, 350 Metres South East of White House
- WRENN ID
- first-postern-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1988
- Type
- Mill
- OS grid reference
- TL 967 582
- Coordinates
- 52.18748, 0.87745
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Mill, located 350 metres southeast of White House, is a disused tower mill built around 1840 by John Whitmore, a millwright from Wickham Market. The mill features a small white brick tower, with one half covered in cement render and all sections tarred. It has three floors above the ground floor, although the tower has been reduced in height by about 2 metres around 1940 to the level of the fourth floor. The mill is adorned with small-paned sash windows, a boarded entrance door, and a first-floor loading bay. The cap and sails were removed in the late 1930s. Inside, the machinery includes the lower half of an iron upright shaft, an iron spurwheel with wooden cogs, an iron stone nut and spindle, and one pair of millstones out of two, which are complete with tentering. The sprattle beam that supports the upright shaft is held up by H frames against the wall, which is typical of Whitmore's design practices.
Local climate
Tower Mill, 350 Metres South East of White House 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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