The Old Guildhall is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. Building. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Guildhall
- WRENN ID
- ancient-barrel-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- Building
- Address
- The Old Guildhall, the Street, Monks Eleigh, IP7 7AU
- OS grid reference
- TL 969 476
- Coordinates
- 52.09241, 0.87325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Guildhall is a 15th-century timber-framed and plastered building, originally the Guildhall, located on the south side of The Street in Monks Eleigh. The building features a two-storeyed cross wing with a jettied upper storey projecting at its east end, and has a tiled roof. The main block now functions as a workshop. A range of outbuildings extends westward, culminating in a gabled wing at the west end. Casement windows are present throughout. The ground storey beneath the jettied cross wing incorporates an 18th-century splayed bay. A six-panel door is featured, along with a decorated frieze. Internally, the building retains notable features including a crown post roof.
Local climate
The Old Guildhall 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 9 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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