Beech Lawn House Including Orangery to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1949. House. 5 related planning applications.
Beech Lawn House Including Orangery to Rear
- WRENN ID
- buried-roof-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beech Lawn House Including Orangery to Rear, 10, South Entrance, Saxmundham, IP17 1DQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 385 629
- Coordinates
- 52.21324, 1.49116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech Lawn House, which includes an orangery at the rear, is a house dated 1820, with the orangery added in the later 19th century and a rear extension from around 1935. The house is constructed of gault brick and features a slate roof with pedimented gable ends and brick end stacks.
The exterior has a three-storey, three-window front. A central porch supported by fluted Greek Doric columns features an entablature that creates a balcony on the first floor, complete with wrought iron railings. The entrance has a six-panel double-leaf door. On either side of the porch, there are unhorned sash windows with six panes over six panes, set under gauged skewback arches. The first floor has three similar sash windows, with the central one being taller to provide access to the balcony. The second floor contains three unhorned sash windows with three panes over three panes, also under gauged skewback arches.
At the rear, there is a four-window range with a single-storey, two-window flat-roofed extension to the right. To the left, a two-storey wing projects at right angles, with a single-storey service room and the orangery attached. The upper floor windows of the main house are of the same type as those at the front. The orangery features sliding sashes with glazing bars beneath a lap-glazed roof.
Inside, the main rooms have mid-19th century marble chimneypieces. The kitchen is equipped with an Imperial Crown kitchen range. The staircase has chamfered stick balusters and a ramped handrail. There is a mid-19th century toilet on the first floor with a continuous-flow cistern in the room above. The attic contains a re-used early 18th century door on H-hinges, and some 19th century gas lamps remain on the upper floors.
Local climate
Beech Lawn House Including Orangery to Rear 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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