The Pound is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. A C16-C17 House. 5 related planning applications.

The Pound

WRENN ID
riven-zinc-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1955
Type
House
Address
The Pound, Hadleigh Road, Higham, CO7 6LF
OS grid reference
TM 030 368
Coordinates
51.99323, 0.95561
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Pound is a house that dates from the 16th to 17th century, with a 19th-century wing on the left and 20th-century alterations. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, with a red brick stack. The 19th-century wing is made of red brick with some dark brick headers, and it has a plain tile roof. The building is a single-storey and attic range with a gabled jettied cross wing on the left and a two-storey brick addition.

The cross wing has a half-glazed door and a jettied first floor, along with a three-light 20th-century casement window and bargeboards on the gable. There is a 24-pane fixed window with a single opening light in the hall, and the end of a beam protrudes at floor level. To the right, there are more 20th-century casements and an additional door. The building also has two gabled dormers with 20th-century windows, a small 20th-century ridge stack to the right, and a sawtooth stack between the cross wing and the hall.

The brick range features three-light windows under segmental arches, with two replaced 16-pane sashes in flush architraves above. At the rear of the hall range, there are large gabled wall dormers. A 20th-century extension with a pent roof has also been added. Inside, the hall has a somewhat rebuilt inglenook, along with chamfered beams and exposed joists.

Local climate

The Pound 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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