Shelley Priory is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1990. House. 3 related planning applications.
Shelley Priory
- WRENN ID
- ancient-balcony-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shelley Priory, Priory Lane, IP7 5RQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 009 383
- Coordinates
- 52.0072, 0.92607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shelley Priory, also known as Burnt House, is an early 18th century house constructed of painted brick. It features a red plain tiled roof that is hipped to the right and hipped at the forward left wing. The building has four gault brick chimney stacks and a dentilled eaves cornice. It is two storeys high with a window arrangement of one tri-partite three-light small paned casement on the left and three on the right. There is a 20th century gabled porch added to the right range.
Local climate
Shelley Priory sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 10 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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