St Vincent is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1989. Hostel.
St Vincent
- WRENN ID
- tangled-threshold-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1989
- Type
- Hostel
- Address
- St Vincent, Stutton Road, Holbrook
- OS grid reference
- TM 164 350
- Coordinates
- 51.97215, 1.14934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Vincent is a boys' hostel built around 1925 to 1933 by Buckland and Heywood. It is constructed of red brick with stone and darker brick dressings, featuring a hipped plain tile roof behind a brick parapet. The building has an H-plan layout with identical east and west fronts, standing two storeys tall with nine bays. It has rusticated brick quoins and a flush brick plinth outlined in darker brick. The parapet is topped with stone coping and rectangular brick panels outlined in darker brick, along with a stone cornice band.
The central bay is canted at the first floor and parapet. On either side, there are four ground floor windows with three by four paned horned sashes with glazing bars, and similar upper hung casements on the first floor. The central stone doorcase features a moulded stone surround with angle pilasters that have stylized capitals and moulded bases, topped with stone finials resting on the cornice. The entablature bears the house name, and there is a pair of doors with three raised and fielded panels each, below an overlight with glazing bars arranged in a diamond pattern. The first floor window above the door has a moulded stone surround and is also made up of three by four panes.
Darker brickwork is used in the flat arches of the windows and in the surrounds, extending above and below to create apron-like panels beneath the first floor windows and a shallower feature of only three courses below the ground floor windows. The south face features a central pedimented bay with a first floor window in a stone surround. A single storey housemaster's accommodation has been inserted at the front of the facade. There is a northern arcaded service court with an arch at the top of the H-plan, using various sized brickwork for the detailing of the capitals. St Vincent is one of ten identical houses for pupils.
Local climate
St Vincent sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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