Uplands House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1992. House. 2 related planning applications.
Uplands House
- WRENN ID
- under-slate-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1992
- Type
- House
- Address
- Uplands House, Upper Street, Layham, IP7 5JZ
- OS grid reference
- TM 036 404
- Coordinates
- 52.02544, 0.96756
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Uplands House is a house dating from around 1830, with extensions added in the late 19th century. It is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with the front of the building tuck-pointed. The roof is slate with gabled ends, and brick gable stacks rise from the roof. The house was originally planned with a 2-room front range and a central entrance hall. Later in the 19th century, a shallow addition was built to the left, and a wing to the right, behind which is an outbuilding, likely originally stables, now incorporated into the house.
The symmetrical, 3-bay south-west front has rubbed brick flat arches above the windows and stone cills. The windows are 19th-century 16-pane sashes, with a narrower 12-pane sash on the centre of the first floor and smaller 8 and 6-pane sashes on the second floor. The central doorway has a reeded doorcase, a rectangular overlight with radiating glazing bars, a projecting canopy supported by large, shaped brackets, fielded panel reveals, and a six-panel fielded door.
At the rear, there is a shallow 2-storey extension on the right with a lean-to roof, and a gable-ended wing on the left with a large 2-storey canted bay. Behind this wing is a lower range weather-boarded and with a corrugated iron sheet roof; this has been converted into living accommodation. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Uplands House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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