Dove House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. House. 3 related planning applications.
Dove House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-banister-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dove House, Ash Street, Semer, IP7 6QZ
- OS grid reference
- TM 010 465
- Coordinates
- 52.08058, 0.93261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dove House is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 16th to 17th centuries. It has a cross wing at its southern end, which has been extended to the east, creating an L-shaped plan. The roof is tiled. The timber frame is visible on the front of the building. It is two storeys high. The upper storey of the cross wing is jettied outwards over the front, supported by carved brackets, and shows exposed ceiling joists. There are no windows on the west front of the main block. The cross wing has small casement windows. A chimney stack rises from the roof with a saw-tooth-shaped shaft. The building is of group value context.
Local climate
Dove 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 3 transactions since 2000
- 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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