The Great House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. House. 8 related planning applications.
The Great House
- WRENN ID
- white-chapel-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Great House, Church Street, Orford, IP12 2NT
- OS grid reference
- TM 422 498
- Coordinates
- 52.094, 1.5353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great House is a house dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick with a slated, hipped roof. The front has five window bays, featuring recessed sash windows with glazing bars. Each window is topped by a gauged brick arch. A central doorway is accentuated by a prostyle portico constructed from Greek Doric columns and a cornice, along with matching pilasters and a moulded architrave. The doorway itself has a raised and fielded six-panel door, with glazed upper panels and a square fanlight containing glazing bars. A gault brick plat band runs horizontally across the facade. The eaves are defined by a modillion cornice, with two courses of gault brick.
Local climate
The Great 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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