Ancient House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. Cottage.
Ancient House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-roof-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ancient House, Lower Street, Stutton
- OS grid reference
- TM 151 346
- Coordinates
- 51.96821, 1.13136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ancient House is a Grade II listed building that consists of two cottages now combined into one dwelling. It dates from the early 17th century or earlier and has undergone later alterations and additions. The structure is timber framed and covered with parget plaster, topped by a red plain tiled roof. It features left external and off-centre right chimneystacks at the ridge. The building is one storey high with attics and has bargeboards with pendants on the return gables. The front wall displays pargetted panels decorated with trailing vine designs. There are three gabled dormers with scalloped bargeboards and a three-window range of diamond leaded 2-light casements. The entrance includes two plank and muntin doors with simple surrounds and flat canopies supported by 17th-century carved console brackets that terminate in female heads.
Local climate
Ancient 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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