Cat House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. House. 5 related planning applications.
Cat House
- WRENN ID
- ancient-gravel-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cat House, Woolverstone, IP9 1AU
- OS grid reference
- TM 195 389
- Coordinates
- 52.00591, 1.19692
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cat House is an eyecatcher and house built in 1793, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a slate roof in the Gothick style. The front of the building is segment-arched on plan and consists of two storeys and three bays. It has a canted porch supported by slender cast iron columns, which contains a studded door under a segmental brick arch with an inserted hoodmould. The windows are casement style, with pointed heads and cusped Y-tracery, and there are tiny cusped lights flanking the porch. The first-floor casement windows are segment-arched with pointed lights. The north gable end is embattled and features a large four-light window with intersecting tracery, dating from around 1985, which replaced a former mock window with pointed tracery. The rear of the building has similar fenestration to the front. There is an entrance to an extension from around 1985 on the south gable end, and a central stack. The Cat House is said to have been used to guide smugglers and is associated with B Jones Follies and Grottos from 1974.
Local climate
Cat House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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