The Bower Close is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. House.
The Bower Close
- WRENN ID
- shifting-entrance-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Bower Close, Polstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 986 407
- Coordinates
- 52.02958, 0.89448
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bower Close is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 16th to 17th century, featuring a tiled roof. It has been restored and renovated, with the timber framing visible on the front. The building is two storeys high and has a four-window range of small modern casements with leaded lights. A central gabled porch and a central ridge chimney stack with four diagonal shafts are prominent features. Inside, there are four Tudor arched fireplaces. A modern wing has been added at the rear.
Local climate
The Bower Close sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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