Islay House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
Islay House
- WRENN ID
- ragged-passage-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Islay House, Church Street, Great Ellingham, NR17 1LE
- OS grid reference
- TM 020 971
- Coordinates
- 52.53433, 0.97692
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Islay House is a house dating from the mid-17th century. It has a timber frame with lath and plaster infill, and a late 18th-century rendered brick casing. The roof is gabled and covered with pantiles. The house features a lobby entrance and has a two-cell plan, with two storeys. The central door is set under a segmental arch, flanked by three 19th-century casement windows on the ground floor, also under similar arches. There is one window on the first floor, and a ridge stack is positioned over the door. At the rear, there is a flat-topped two-storey extension added in the mid-20th century.
Inside, the original framing is intact, with tongue and roll stops on the main beams. The fireplaces are original, and there is a winder staircase next to the stack. Additionally, there are remains of two timber mullioned sliding shutter windows in the east wall of the north room.
Local climate
Islay House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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