Principal's House Chadacre Agricultural Institute is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House.
Principal's House Chadacre Agricultural Institute
- WRENN ID
- tangled-garret-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Principal's House Chadacre Agricultural Institute, Shimpling
- OS grid reference
- TL 854 524
- Coordinates
- 52.13944, 0.70796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Principal's House at Chadacre Agricultural Institute is a late 18th century or early 19th century brick house that has modern additions at the rear and is now colour-washed. It stands two storeys tall and features a three-window range. The outer windows are leaded casements with semi-circular arched heads and Gothic tracery in the upper lights. Above the central doorway, there is a rectangular window. The roof is slate, and it has end chimney stacks.
Local climate
Principal's House Chadacre Agricultural Institute 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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