Dunstead House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. A C15 House.
Dunstead House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-chapel-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dunstead House, Sudbury Road, Bures St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- TL 899 362
- Coordinates
- 51.99211, 0.76534
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dunstead House is a fine timber-framed house that originally stood in Kersey but was carefully dismantled and moved to its current location in 1926, where it was re-assembled exactly as it was. The house is built on an L-shaped plan with wings extending to the north-east and south-east, featuring a cross wing at the south-east end. It has two storeys and attics. The main block, which is the south-east wing, was likely a late 15th-century hall house with a floor and fireplace added in the 16th century. The south-west front of the main block has a jettied upper storey with exposed joists, and while the house primarily has plaster infill, there is brick nogging under the jetty on this front. The north-west end of the main block is also jettied on the upper storey with exposed joists and brick nogging on the ground storey. The ground storey has been raised on a brick plinth to give it extra height. Inside, the house features well-crafted moulded ceiling beams and joists, along with three original doorways that have fine carved spandrels.
Local climate
Dunstead House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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