Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Church House

WRENN ID
crumbling-threshold-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1978
Type
Cottage
Address
Church House, the Street, Lawshall, IP29 4PA
OS grid reference
TL 864 542
Coordinates
52.1546, 0.72413
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church House is a 18th century timber-framed building located on the south side of The Street in Lawshall. It features end plastered cottages that are one storey high with attics. The small casement windows are fitted with glazing bars. The thatched roofs have three gabled dormers, with the date 1768 inscribed on the outer gables and the date 1968 in smaller figures. The center gable displays the initials S over I E.

Local climate

Church 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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