The Great House is a Grade II* listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. A Medieval House. 4 related planning applications.
The Great House
- WRENN ID
- crooked-obsidian-indigo
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Great House, Market Place, Lavenham, CO10 9QZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 916 493
- Coordinates
- 52.10918, 0.79695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great House is a 15th-century timber-framed and plastered building that was completely refronted in the 18th century. It has tiled roofs, with the front block featuring hipped ends at the north-west and south-east. The building is two storeys tall with attics and has a six-window range of double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The entrance is marked by a Doric doorcase with plain columns, a frieze, and a cornice. The main block displays a moulded wood eaves cornice. There is a two-storey wing extending to the north-east on Prentice Street, where the timber-framing is exposed on the upper storey, and some old windows have been restored. The ground storey includes a splayed bay with double-hung sashes with glazing bars at the south-west end and a cart entrance at the north-east end. The interior features are noted to be of good quality.
Local climate
The Great 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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