Steam Mill is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Mill.
Steam Mill
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-brass-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Steam Mill, Mill Road, Barningham
- OS grid reference
- TL 969 769
- Coordinates
- 52.35476, 0.89105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Steam Mill is a former steam mill, now operating electrically, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. It stands three storeys high and is positioned sideways to the road. The structure is timber-framed, with parts rendered and mainly covered in weatherboarding, topped with slate roofs. The mill consists of two distinct but connected sections. The building closest to the road is believed to have originally served as a maltings and granary, featuring remnants of 18th-century timber-framing, though it has since been modernised. Attached to the east side is a 19th-century lean-to extension made of flint rubble, which has been raised with a weatherboarded top. To the north of this building is the main mill structure, which retains the framing of its outer walls and appears to have been extended. It features a large lucam that is off-centre, which is boarded and supported by ornamental cast metal brackets. The mill also has various small-paned fixed or casement windows, and there is an upper door located below the lucam.
Local climate
Steam 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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