Sturches is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. House.
Sturches
- WRENN ID
- tilted-keystone-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sturches, the Street, Swefling
- OS grid reference
- TM 346 638
- Coordinates
- 52.22292, 1.43429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sturches is a house that dates back to the early 16th century, with a late 18th or early 19th century addition on the left side and a mid-20th century addition at the rear. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof. It has a single storey and an attic, featuring a two-cell plan; originally, it was a single storey dwelling with the right-hand cell unheated. The house has mid-20th century casement windows with diamond leaded glass, two 20th century doors, and two shallow-gabled dormers. There is an internal stack, and the right-hand gable end includes a 19th century pointed-arch casement window. A datestone inscribed 'TM 1733', originally from another part of the house, is now set into the left-hand addition. Inside, there is exposed framing and some early floorboarding.
Local climate
Sturches sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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