Kelsale Court is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Guest house. 1 related planning application.
Kelsale Court
- WRENN ID
- night-vault-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Guest house
- Address
- Kelsale Court, Main Road, Kelsale Cum Carlton, IP17 2QU
- OS grid reference
- TM 386 651
- Coordinates
- 52.23272, 1.49309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kelsale Court, formerly the rectory and now a guest house, dates from the early 19th century, with some earlier work at the rear and various later extensions. The building is constructed of pale yellow brick, with red brick at the rear, and features a wooden mutule eaves cornice and a roof covered in concrete pantiles. It stands three storeys tall with a symmetrical five-bay facade. The inset sash windows have glazing bars and flat brick arches; the center windows on the first and second floors have segmental arches, with the first-floor window slightly inset within a segmental-arched recess.
The entrance boasts a fine doorway with paired three-panel doors, each having a glazed upper panel and bolection moulded panels. Above the doors is a broad rectangular fanlight with ornamental glazing bars, framed by a reeded architrave with corner roundels. The doorway is set back with panelled reveals and is topped by a Roman Doric portico featuring fluted columns and pilasters, a frieze with triglyphs and inset roundels, and a mutule cornice. The building also has three-bay return fronts that include several painted dummy windows.
Local climate
Kelsale Court 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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