Numbers 1-4 Ancient Houses is a Grade I listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. A C15-C16 House. 3 related planning applications.
Numbers 1-4 Ancient Houses
- WRENN ID
- blind-tracery-indigo
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Numbers 1-4 Ancient Houses, the Street, Kersey, IP7 6EA
- OS grid reference
- TL 999 442
- Coordinates
- 52.06067, 0.91574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ancient Houses Nos 1 to 4, located on the west side of The Street in Kersey, are a historic building dating from the 15th to 16th century. This timber-framed and plastered structure features a tiled roof and stands two storeys high. The most notable aspects of the building are the two projecting two-storeyed bays at the front, which have boldly moulded brick plinths and gables adorned with carved bargeboards that rise above the eaves.
The ground floor includes 7-light bar and transom bays with lattice leaded lights, along with remnants of moulded sills and frames. The upper windows are later casements set on moulded bressumers. The rest of the front displays exposed timber-framing and small casement windows, some of which are blocked original windows. The doorways are accessed by flights of steps leading up from the pavement. The property has been converted into flats.
Local climate
Numbers 1-4 Ancient Houses 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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