Works House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1951. House.
Works House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-tin-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Works House, 14 and 16, Main Street, Leiston
- OS grid reference
- TM 444 626
- Coordinates
- 52.20777, 1.57604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Works House is a pair of houses built in the early 19th century. They are constructed from yellow brick and feature a slate roof, with a double span pantiled roof at the rear. The buildings rise to three storeys and are adorned with brick pilasters that extend from the first floor to the parapet. These pilasters have stone bases and are topped with semi-circular, four-faced cast iron ornamental finial blocks above the parapet. There are stone bands at the first floor level and below the parapet.
The houses have a four-window range, with sash windows that include glazing bars set in flush frames, each with wooden hood moulds. The central doorways are paired and feature 8-panel doors that are recessed under an entablature supported by three wooden Tuscan columns, which are flanked by pilasters. Each doorway has a narrow side light and an oblong plain fanlight above. The first floor windows above the doors are coupled under a single frieze and cornice that is supported by four pilasters. There is a single-storey wing on the right-hand side.
Local climate
Works House 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
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