The Malt House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
The Malt House
- WRENN ID
- stranded-iron-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Malt House, Low Road, Earl Soham, IP13 7RL
- OS grid reference
- TM 229 630
- Coordinates
- 52.22085, 1.26244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Malt House is a house dating from the late 16th century, with 20th-century additions at the rear. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a two-window range that includes 18th-century three-light mullion and transom casements. There is a central doorway with a six-panel door, where the upper four panels are glazed, and it is sheltered by an open timber trellis porch. At the rear, there are gabled staircase wings from the same period. The first floor and the staircase wing showcase good exposed timbering, and there is an original dogleg staircase leading to the attic, which has a well-preserved original door.
Local climate
The Malt House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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