Amadeus House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Amadeus House
- WRENN ID
- iron-brass-vermeil
- 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, shop
- Address
- Amadeus House, 2a, Church Street, Framlingham, IP13 9BE
- OS grid reference
- TM 285 634
- Coordinates
- 52.22186, 1.34431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Amadeus House is a house and shop dating from the 16th century. It has two storeys and attics, with a basic half-H shape, positioned sideways to the road on the southern edge of the churchyard. The building features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, topped with a plain tiled roof and a modillion cornice. An internal chimney stack is located between the main range and the eastern cross-wing, featuring a large plain red brick shaft.
The house includes various early 19th-century mullion-and-transom windows with Gothick hoodmoulds and one gabled dormer. The entrance door, from the 20th century, is framed by pilasters, an entablature, a dentil cornice, and a rectangular fanlight with curved glazing bars. The eastern cross-wing serves as a shop, displaying a mid-19th-century facade that is at a lower level than the rest of the building. This facade is made of red brick, with white brick pilasters and heavy console brackets.
Inside, the plain framing is exposed, with ceilings featuring chamfered main beams and joists set flat. The cross-wing on the west has five bays, and its roof includes clasped purlins, principal rafters, and windbraces, with some rafters showing signs of reuse and smoke-blackening. The roof over the main range has one row of butt purlins and one row of clasped purlins, appearing slightly later than that of the wing. There is no visible evidence that the house had an earlier core. The building also has various blocked original windows and later extensions at the rear.
Local climate
Amadeus House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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