Beech House Jasmine House the Old Prince is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Former inn, residential.

Beech House Jasmine House the Old Prince

WRENN ID
buried-facade-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1951
Type
Former inn, residential
Address
Beech House Jasmine House the Old Prince, the Street, Walpole
OS grid reference
TM 365 745
Coordinates
52.31815, 1.46886
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Prince, Jasmine House, and Beech House is a former inn that has been divided into three dwellings. The core of the building likely dates back to the 16th century, while the main block was rebuilt in the early 19th century. The older part, located on the right side, has been much altered and features a timber frame with plaster and a pantiled roof. The main block has a white brick facade with colorwashed red brick returns and a slated roof.

The building is two storeys high with an asymmetrical seven-bay facade. The windows are more closely spaced on the left side, and the quoins and central entrance bay are slightly set forward. It has sash windows with glazing bars in flush frames and flat brick arches, with one blank panel on the first floor. The entrance is located within a slightly inset semi-circular headed recess, featuring double three-panel doors and a semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars, both set within panelled reveals. The entrance is adorned with a reeded architrave and corner roundels. The central first floor window is set within a segmental-arched recess, and the building has wide overhanging eaves supported by paired brackets. To the left side, there is a former stable block that is now part of The Old Prince.

Local climate

Beech House Jasmine House the Old Prince sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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