Argent Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1989. House. 2 related planning applications.

Argent Manor House

WRENN ID
eternal-span-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 February 1989
Type
House
Address
Argent Manor House, Bentley Road, Stutton, IP9 2SY
OS grid reference
TM 145 359
Coordinates
51.98025, 1.12244
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Argent Manor House is a house dating from the 15th to 16th century, with later alterations and additions. It features a timber frame and rough render, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The house has a central chimney stack with four attached octagonal shafts and consists of two storeys and attics. There is a single-storey extension on the right, built in red brick during the 19th or 20th century, which likely served as a former kitchen or bakehouse, complete with an end chimneystack.

The front of the house has a 2:2 window arrangement of 20th-century small paned casements, along with a 20th-century gabled porch and door. Inside, much of the timber frame is concealed, but there are heavy chamfered and boxed-in bridging joists supported by jowled storey posts on the ground floor. The chimneystack is blocked but coved outward to the ceiling joists on the ground floor. The first floor features jowled storey posts, and one arched brace remains attached to the tie-beam. The top plate has a halved and bridled scarf joint. The rear wing appears to be from the 19th or 20th century and uses reused timber. A cast iron fireplace with a moulded surround is present in one of the bedrooms. Historical records mention a Roger Argent in the Subsidy Rolls of 1295, and the current owner possesses an indenture related to the property dated in the 36th year of King Charles II.

Local climate

Argent Manor House 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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