Cranmer House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1995. House. 6 related planning applications.
Cranmer House
- WRENN ID
- waning-ledge-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1995
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cranmer House, Maybush Lane, Felixstowe, IP11 7NA
- OS grid reference
- TM 315 348
- Coordinates
- 51.96427, 1.36872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cranmer House is a house dating from 1885, designed by Thomas Cotman for the Cobbold family. It is constructed of red brick with mock timber framing, featuring a plain tile roof and elaborate brick stacks, some with linked flues. The architectural style is vernacular Elizabethan. The house comprises a main range with projecting wings, with two and three storeys and an attic. Windows are mainly sash windows, with scattered fenestration culminating in a large landing window. A projecting brick porch fronts the entrance, featuring a moulded four-centre arched doorway and a brick vault within. Decorative friezes to jetty coving are present, alongside richly carved bargeboards and elaborate dormers with eaves supported on carved brackets. The garden front, facing the sea, has sash windows to the upper floors and mainly 20th-century windows on the ground floor. A prominent, projecting bay window to the centre right develops into a tower with a dome, while a ground-floor veranda with a pentice roof is supported on carved Renaissance-style piers.
The interior is richly appointed. The entrance hall features a carved alabaster and marble canopied fireplace with a boarded settle. A fine mahogany staircase rises through three storeys, with a few steps spanning the centre of the hall; the balustrade has barley-sugar-twist balusters. Mahogany panelled doors are complemented by a library with bookcases incorporating Ionic fluted columns, a decorative plaster ceiling, and a carved fireplace with a marble slip and blue and white Dutch tiles. Three reception rooms facing the sea now incorporate archways; the original decoration remains, including plaster ceilings and carved fireplaces. The western fireplace features a painting of dancing maidens, while the inglenook above the eastern fireplace contains a small copy of Guido Reni's Triumph of Aurora. On the second floor, the tower room has dado panelling, a carved fireplace, and a rich frieze to the ceiling with a shallow dome. A narrow mahogany door leads to a tower room featuring a boarded staircase, bookcases, and windows all round.
Cranmer House is a fine example of a building from the period, reflecting the wealth of the prominent Suffolk family of brewers.
Local climate
Cranmer House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 13 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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