Godwins Place is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1988. House. 1 related planning application.

Godwins Place

WRENN ID
dark-moulding-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 April 1988
Type
House
Address
Godwins Place, Charsfield Road, Hoo, IP13 7QW
OS grid reference
TM 259 582
Coordinates
52.17587, 1.30261
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Godwins Place is a house dating from the 16th century, with additions from the 17th century. It is timber-framed, covered with a colourwashed brick skin, and has a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys with an attic.

The entrance front features a projecting wing on the right, which includes a tri-partite sash window on both the ground and first floors, along with a two-light attic window. In the re-entrant angle between this wing and the main range is a canted bay that serves as the entrance porch. This porch is built of 19th-century brick and has a shallow-pitched lead roof. To the left of the porch is another 19th-century canted bay that contains a central tri-partite window on both the ground and first floors, with additional similar windows at the left-hand angle. To the right of this bay are a two-light window on the ground floor and a similar window on the first floor. At the left of the canted bay on the ground floor, there are a three-light and a two-light casement window.

At the ridge of the main range, there is a 19th-century brick stack with two flues, rebuilt in the 19th century and positioned to the right of centre. The projecting wing on the right has a ridge chimney stack. On the right-hand side of the house, there are two tri-partite sash windows on the ground floor and two two-light casements on the first floor.

At the rear, there is a gabled wing on the left with a central stack featuring two flues and a single-light attic window to the left of this stack. To the right, there is a sash window with three panes by three panes, a doorway to the left of centre, and two two-light and one three-light casement windows to the right. The first floor has a three-light casement and two two-light casements. The interior does not reveal any visible timbers.

Local climate

Godwins Place sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
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