Watermill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Farmhouse.

Watermill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sheer-gargoyle-bracken
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
Farmhouse
Address
Watermill Farmhouse, School Lane, Bardwell
OS grid reference
TL 935 742
Coordinates
52.33207, 0.83967
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Watermill Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse located next to Watermill. It is two storeys high and features a timber-framed structure with roughcast exterior and a slate roof, along with an internal chimney stack. The building has three-light casement windows, some of which date from the 19th century. The entrance includes a mid-19th century open timber porch with a slate roof. There are extensions at the rear of the farmhouse.

Local climate

Watermill 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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