The Elms is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Elms
- WRENN ID
- keen-newel-bistre
- 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
- The Elms, the Street, Earl Soham, IP13 7SA
- OS grid reference
- TM 234 632
- Coordinates
- 52.22185, 1.27031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elms is a house with a late 16th/early 17th century core, significantly altered in the late 19th century with a Gothic style facade, and extended to the right in a matching style in the early 20th century. The core of the house is timber-framed and has a red brick facade, covered by a roof of glazed pantiles. It is two storeys and has an attic. The older part of the house has a five-window front with 2-light and 3-light small-paned casement windows. These windows have pointed glazing bars to the upper panes of each light, splayed reveals, and hood moulds. There is an entrance porch with a crenellated parapet, containing double 3-panel doors. Three large gabled dormers with scalloped bargeboards are present in the attic. An internal stack and an external stack are situated at the left-hand gable end. The addition to the right has a two-storey splayed bay and a crenellated parapet. One ground floor room contains an ornamental plaster ceiling, likely from the 18th century.
Local climate
The Elms 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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