Blaize House is a Grade II* listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. A Medieval Residential.
Blaize House
- WRENN ID
- secret-pier-wax
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- Residential
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Blaize House, 11 and 12, Church Street, Lavenham, CO10 9RS
- OS grid reference
- TL 915 490
- Coordinates
- 52.10673, 0.79533
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blaize House is a Grade II* listed building located on Church Street in Lavenham. This structure dates from the 15th to 16th century and features a timber-framed and plastered design, with the timber framing now exposed on the front. The roof is tiled. Blaize House was once part of a group known as the Weaving Houses, where a master clothier lived and operated looms. The upper storey previously displayed pargetted emblems of the wool trade, including a mitre, fleur-de-lys, and spur-rowels. By the late 18th century, the building was repurposed as a school.
The house has two storeys, with the upper storey jettied across the entire front, supported by exposed joists and curved brackets featuring moulded capitals and shafts. It includes a three-window range of restored leaded casements and a restored mullioned window with Gothic arched lights on the upper storey. The entrance features a Tudor arched doorway with carved spandrels, and there is an oriel bay on the ground floor with a moulded and embattled sill. At the rear, there are gabled wings. Inside, the building retains the screen passage of the original open hall and boasts a fine crown post roof.
Local climate
Blaize 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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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