Watermill is a Grade II* listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. A N/A Watermill.
Watermill
- WRENN ID
- first-balcony-vetch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Watermill
- Period
- N/A
- Address
- Watermill, Grimstone End, Pakenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 937 694
- Coordinates
- 52.28894, 0.83894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a watermill dating from 1814, associated with Charles Low, who was the miller in the early 19th century. He is believed to have rebuilt the mill partly on earlier foundations. The mill was restored to full working order in the late 1970s. It stands four storeys tall, with a tarred brick ground storey and timber-framed upper storeys that are rendered at the front and weatherboarded on the sides. The roof is pantiled and features a lucam on the south slope. The ground storey has two small-paned sash windows and two doors, all with segmental arched heads. The upper storeys have three small-paned sash windows. There is an upper loading door that includes a semi-circular fanlight. The internal machinery is complete, featuring a low breast shot waterwheel from around 1900 and three pairs of underdriven millstones. Additionally, on the first floor, there is a Tattersall Midget roller mill.
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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