Watermill is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Watermill.
Watermill
- WRENN ID
- gentle-thatch-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Watermill
- Address
- Watermill, School Lane, Bardwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 935 742
- Coordinates
- 52.33211, 0.83943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This watermill, dating from the early 19th century, stands three storeys tall. The ground storey is built of gault brick, while the upper levels are timber-framed and feature 20th-century replacement weatherboarding. It has a slate roof with a lucam. There is one original small-paned cast iron window with an arched head. Inside, there is an internal undershot waterwheel, although most of the other machinery has been removed, leaving only a cleaner on the top floor.
Local climate
Watermill 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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