Robins Nest is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. House.
Robins Nest
- WRENN ID
- silent-column-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Robins Nest, Wickham Market Road, Dallinghoo
- OS grid reference
- TM 272 550
- Coordinates
- 52.14733, 1.31938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Robin's Nest is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century. It is timber framed, finished with colourwashed render, and topped with a thatched roof. The house has two storeys. The entrance front features close-studded walling, with a lean-to on the right that includes a 20th-century recessed porch and door with moulded muntins. To the left, there are a three-light window, two two-light windows, and a further two-light window with chamfered mullions at the far left on the ground floor. The first floor has a three-light window on the right and a two-light window on the left. A ridge chimney stack is located on the left side, with another lean-to beside it. On the right side, there is a lean-to porchway on the left and close-studding on the gable, which bears the date 1541. There is a further projecting range on the right, featuring 17th-century windows with moulded mullions and surrounds. At the rear, there is a projecting wing on the left, with 19th and 20th-century windows to the right of this. Inside, the house has chamfered ceiling beams and close studding in the ground and first floor rooms, along with jowled wall posts and cambered tiebeams.
Local climate
Robins Nest 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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