Turn Close is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1951. House.
Turn Close
- WRENN ID
- long-hinge-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Turn Close, 11, Church Street, Woodbridge, IP12 1DH
- OS grid reference
- TM 271 490
- Coordinates
- 52.09313, 1.3153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 11, also known as Turn Close, is a building located on Church Street, dating from 1852. It is an early 18th-century structure that originally featured a shop front on two-thirds of the ground floor, which has since been bricked up and set back about 2 feet. The building is two stories high, with plaster above and on the left side. The first floor has three sash windows with glazing bars and flush frames, and the roof is tiled.
The building's frontage faces Turn Lane, except for a brick rusticated quoin and an arched sash window that has been replaced with a casement featuring glazing bars and a radial head. At the back, the early 18th-century construction remains intact despite the addition of a modern one-story wing, which has mullion transom windows instead of the original sashes due to its previous use as a convent. The original walls are made of Suffolk yellow brick, with red brick dressings that extend as panels into the parapet above and below the windows. The quoins are rusticated, similar to those on Turn Lane.
Additional architectural details include a moulded brick cornice, a stone-coped parapet with sunk panels over the windows, which are now casements with flat arches. There are two windows on the left side of the return wing. The building features a fine six-panel deep fielded door with a wooden case, fluted Doric pilasters, triglyphs, and three square lights in the central metopes, topped with a mutular pediment. Inside, there is a good cove cornice with a key fret and an egg and dart moulded panel above the staircase, as well as some room panelling.
Nos 1 to 25 (odd) form a group.
Local climate
Turn Close sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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