Potash House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House. 2 related planning applications.
Potash House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-truss-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Potash House, Skate's Hill, Glemsford, CO10 7QT
- OS grid reference
- TL 830 467
- Coordinates
- 52.08841, 0.67038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Potash House is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered house built on an L-shaped plan. It is a single storey with attics, featuring a two-window range with 20th-century casement windows incorporating leaded lights. A central doorway is present, currently boarded. The roof is thatched, with two gabled dormers and a central chimney stack.
Local climate
Potash House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2008
- 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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