Hyams House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1988. Cottage.
Hyams House
- WRENN ID
- grim-merlon-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hyams House, Hyams Lane, Holbrook
- OS grid reference
- TM 165 361
- Coordinates
- 51.98176, 1.15237
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hyams House is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure topped with a red plain tiled roof. The building has an off-centre left red brick chimneystack with plastered panels. It is one storey high with attics and includes two gabled dormers. The front has three small paned casements and an off-centre left board door with a simple surround, along with a similar door on the right return. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace and chamfered bridging joists.
Local climate
Hyams 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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