Wenham Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. House. 3 related planning applications.

Wenham Hill

WRENN ID
peeling-joist-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1955
Type
House
Address
Wenham Hill, Church Road, Wenham Magna, CO7 6PJ
OS grid reference
TM 075 373
Coordinates
51.9954, 1.02172
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wenham Hill is a house dating from the 16th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is likely timber framed and plastered, topped with red plain tiled roofs. The house has an H-shaped plan and is notable for its four large external red brick chimney stacks, all of which are offset. There are two stacks on the left side, one at the front featuring three octagonal shafts with moulded capitals, bases, and bands, and a rear stack with two diagonal shafts and moulded capitals, which has likely been rebuilt. The central rear stack has three octagonal shafts with moulded bands, capitals, and bases, while the right return stack has four similar octagonal shafts.

The building is two storeys high with attics. The crosswing gables each have a small paned two-light attic window, and below these are hipped roofs of angled two-storey bays. The front has a window arrangement of 1:3:1 with small paned vertically sliding sashes, although there is no fourth first-floor window, and the bays consist of three lights. The central entrance features a reproduction plank and muntin door with a moulded surround. Additionally, there is a brick buttress supporting the front chimney stack on the left side and a single-storey front addition. The rear stack includes a gabled bake oven, a porch, and a 20th-century door situated between the stacks, along with a single-storey rear range. No internal inspection was conducted at the time of the re-survey.

Local climate

Wenham Hill 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
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