Ford House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. House.
Ford House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-kitchen-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ford House, the Green, Grundisburgh
- OS grid reference
- TM 224 510
- Coordinates
- 52.11306, 1.24673
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford House is a mid-19th century house located on the north side of The Green in Grundisburgh. It is constructed of red Flemish bond brick and features a pantile roof in a Tudor style.
The front of the house facing the road has two 20th-century ground floor windows with chamfered surrounds and hood moulds made of moulded brick, complete with label stops. Between these windows is a 20th-century blank oval. On the first floor, there are two blocked windows, each with moulded hood moulds. A brick string course runs below the parapet, which is battlemented and has saddleback copings.
On the churchyard side, there is a central 20th-century window with a hood mould similar to those on the front. Flanking this window are two narrower windows of the same style, and there are three similar windows on the first floor, with the same string course and parapet details as the front.
At the rear, there is a blank oval on the left side of the ground floor and another on the right side of the first floor, along with a sash window with a hood mould on the left. To the right, there is a projecting 20th-century gabled wing with a chimney stack on its gable end. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Ford House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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