Fishers is a Grade II* listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. House, hall house.
Fishers
- WRENN ID
- tenth-gable-pine
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House, hall house
- Address
- Fishers, Fenstead End, Boxted
- OS grid reference
- TL 807 503
- Coordinates
- 52.12232, 0.63901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fishers is a 15th-century hall house that has been altered in the 16th century and later. It features exposed timber framing with plaster infill, and the ground floor includes brick nogging. The building has two storeys and 20th-century windows set within the framing. The roof is tiled and has a central chimney stack. At the north end, there is a large external chimney stack with tabled offsets and two small square shafts set diagonally. Inside, the house boasts a finely carved hearth beam along with exposed timber-framing ceiling beams and joists.
Local climate
Fishers 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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