Hope House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1969. House. 1 related planning application.
Hope House
- WRENN ID
- iron-pillar-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1969
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hope House, Cross Green, Cockfield, IP30 0LG
- OS grid reference
- TL 896 556
- Coordinates
- 52.16644, 0.77161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hope House is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 17th to 18th centuries. It is set on an L-shaped plan, with wings extending to the south-east and south-west. The building is two storeys high, featuring casement windows, some of which are original from the 18th century. The north-west front has a 6-panel door set within a wooden doorcase which includes fluted pilasters, a frieze, and a pediment.
Local climate
Hope House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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