Highbank is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. A Medieval Hall house.
Highbank
- WRENN ID
- roaming-chamber-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- Hall house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Highbank, the Street, Brent Eleigh
- OS grid reference
- TL 943 477
- Coordinates
- 52.09424, 0.83508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highbank is a timber-framed and plastered building with a cross wing at the north-west end. It was originally a medieval hall house, with a floor inserted in the 16th to 17th century. The building has one storey and attics, along with a two-storey cross wing that jetties on the upper storey. The roof is tiled on the cross wing and thatched on the main block. The windows are modern casements. Inside, there is exposed timber-framing, including a stop splayed joint with undercut butts to the wall plate, which may date from the 14th century or earlier. Additionally, there is a single-storey thatched outbuilding extending at the south-east end.
Local climate
Highbank 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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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