Merlin House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House.
Merlin House
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cobalt-ridge
- 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
- Merlin House, the Street, Earl Soham
- OS grid reference
- TM 231 630
- Coordinates
- 52.22051, 1.26537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merlin House is a house that likely dates from the late 16th century, with later additions. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a four-window range, with 18th-century casements that have square leaded panes. The two right-hand bays include five-light bowed windows. There are two doorways: on the right side, there is a six-panel raised and fielded door, with the upper two panels glazed, and it is accessed via an open timber trellis porch. On the left side, there is another six-panel door, with the upper four panels glazed, which is enclosed by a lean-to porch made of colourwashed brick, featuring a segmental-arched opening. To the right side of the house, there is a single-storey addition with a later section that is set forward, which includes two blank segmental arches that match the lean-to porch. The house has an internal stack and a small external stack on the right gable end.
Local climate
Merlin 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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