West Mill is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House, steam mill.
West Mill
- WRENN ID
- crooked-footing-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- House, steam mill
- Address
- West Mill, Horringer Road, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 841 631
- Coordinates
- 52.2353, 0.69522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Mill is a house and attached steam mill located in Bury St Edmunds, dating from the early 19th century, with late 19th century extensions to the house. The house features a timber frame and is rendered, topped with a double-gabled slate roof.
The exterior is two storeys high, with pierced and shaped bargeboards on the shallow gables and a small single-storey extension on the left side of the front, all adorned with pendants that terminate in open lanterns. The front has a range of four windows, consisting of 9-pane sashes in flush cased frames. The ground storey has various window types: two sashes with a single vertical bar in the lights, one inserted flat-roofed canted three-light bay, and one late 20th century window with plate glass. The entrance features a half-glazed door with a 19th century latticed timber porch. Originally, the entrance door was located on the north side but was moved when the house was extended to the northwest.
The mill, which is now disused, was built in 1846 and is constructed of red brick with a slate roof. It stands three storeys tall in an L-shaped form, with a projecting gabled wing that has a small-paned fixed window on each storey, although the top window is blocked. The gable features a roundel inscribed with "W+O 1846." The entrance door is located at the splayed northeast angle, with another door positioned above it.
Local climate
West Mill 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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