The Old Parsonary is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Parsonary
- WRENN ID
- sombre-basalt-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Parsonary, Hall Road, Parham
- OS grid reference
- TM 309 605
- Coordinates
- 52.19475, 1.37743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Parsonary is a house dating from the late 15th century to early 16th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and has a plastered exterior, topped with a hipped thatched roof. The building is a single storey with an attic. It features one three-light casement window with paired boarded shutters and two eyebrow dormers, one of which has diamond leaded glass. There is a cross passage entry on the right side with a 20th-century boarded door and an open timber porch, as well as another boarded door on the left side. The house has an internal stack and an external stack on the right side. Inside, there is a roll-moulded and crenellated beam in the cross passage, along with the remains of two arched doorways that provided access to the service end of the house.
Local climate
The Old Parsonary 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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