West House, Royal Hospital School is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1989. A Early 20th Century House.
West House, Royal Hospital School
- WRENN ID
- ghost-spandrel-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1989
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early 20th Century
- Address
- West House, Royal Hospital School, Stutton Road, Holbrook
- OS grid reference
- TM 163 351
- Coordinates
- 51.97227, 1.14812
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West House at the Royal Hospital School is a house built around 1925 to 1933 by architects Buckland and Heywood. It features red brick in Flemish bond with hanging tiles on the first floor central band and a hipped dark red plain tiled roof. There are external stacks on both the left and right sides, with shaped stone offset brackets above the eaves on the right. The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical facade with three windows. The central door consists of six recessed panels and is sheltered by a flat canopy supported by brackets. On either side of the door are canted bay windows that contain horned sashes with glazing bars. The first-floor windows also have horned sashes with glazing bars; the outer windows have three panes by four panes, while the central window has two panes by four panes.
Local climate
West House, Royal Hospital School 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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