Dowsetts is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House. 6 related planning applications.
Dowsetts
- WRENN ID
- dark-pedestal-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dowsetts, Melford Road, Hartest, IP29 4JN
- OS grid reference
- TL 828 517
- Coordinates
- 52.13379, 0.67047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dowsetts is a 18th century timber-framed and plastered house located on Melford Road in Hartest. The building has two storeys and features small casement windows. It has a thatched roof, which includes one gabled dormer at the front. The gable is scratched with the date 1711 in the plaster.
Local climate
Dowsetts 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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