Market Cross House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1974. A C19 House, hotel. 1 related planning application.

Market Cross House

WRENN ID
last-steeple-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 August 1974
Type
House, hotel
Address
Market Cross House, 17, Market Cross Place, Aldeburgh, IP15 5BB
OS grid reference
TM 465 568
Coordinates
52.15517, 1.60273
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Market Cross House is a house that was later converted into a hotel and is now divided into three flats. It dates from around 1860 and was subdivided in the late 20th century. The building features rendered and whitewashed brick with a hipped slate roof and lacks chimneys, along with a cast-iron balcony.

The exterior is three stories high with a four-window front. A square porch with a half-glazed door projects from the left of the center. Canted bay windows with horned sashes, featuring 6/6 and 8/8 glazing bars, are located at both ends. To the right of the door is an unhorned sash window with 8/8 panes, set beneath a continuous first-floor balcony that is supported by the bay windows and porch. Three French windows open onto the balcony, with the third bay occupied by another unhorned sash window. The second floor has three unhorned sashes with 4/8 panes and one unhorned sash with 3/6 panes at the extreme right.

At the rear, there are a mix of sash and casement windows, a saw-toothed eaves cornice, and a 20th-century galvanized steel fire escape. Inside, the ground-floor doors are six-panelled and set within reeded surrounds, although the staircase has been removed.

Local climate

Market Cross 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 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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
  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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