Snape House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.
Snape House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-floor-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Snape House, Farnham Road, IP17 1QW
- OS grid reference
- TM 391 593
- Coordinates
- 52.18041, 1.49645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Snape House, which was once the rectory, dates from around 1840. The building features two main wings that form an L-shaped plan, with a later service wing added to the west. It is constructed of white brick and has a slated roof, standing two storeys tall.
The east wing has a three-window range and is accented by brick pilasters at the quoins and entrance bay. An external stack divides the other bays, and there is a brick band at the first floor level and at the base of the parapet. The sash windows have glazing bars and are set in cased frames, with flat brick arches above. The ground and first floor bays on the east side have blank panels. The entrance bay is asymmetrical and was likely altered in the late 19th century; it features a porch with brick pilasters, moulded stone capitals, a stone frieze and cornice, and a wrought iron balcony above. The half-glazed door has small panels and an elliptical arch above it, while the first floor has an elongated sash window with coloured glass.
On the south elevation, there is a six-panel door with raised and fielded panels, accompanied by an elliptical fanlight with glazing bars. The building also has paired octagonal flues with moulded bases and tops. The west wing mirrors the fenestration of the east wing and has a parapet with a brick dentil course and triglyphs.
Local climate
Snape 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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