The Fleece Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
The Fleece Hotel
- WRENN ID
- wild-foundation-gold
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Fleece Hotel, 8 and 10, Broad Street, Boxford, CO10 5DX
- OS grid reference
- TL 962 405
- Coordinates
- 52.02875, 0.85992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fleece Hotel is a Grade II* listed building located on Broad Street in Boxford. It features an 18th-century stucco front that conceals an earlier timber-framed structure, likely dating back to the 16th century. The building has two storeys and a five-window range of double-hung sashes with glazing bars. At the east end, there is a carriage entrance, while the west end boasts an entranceway with an Ionic doorcase, which includes plain columns, a decorated frieze, and a modillion pediment. The roof is tiled and has a coved plaster eaves cornice. Inside, there is a notable moulded ceiling beam.
Local climate
The Fleece Hotel 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- 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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