High House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1983. Farmhouse.

High House

WRENN ID
graven-baluster-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 July 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
High House, Newbourne Road, Hemley
OS grid reference
TM 286 423
Coordinates
52.03249, 1.3323
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High House is an early 18th-century farmhouse featuring a lobby entrance. The building stands two storeys tall and includes dormers. It is constructed of colour-washed brick and has a plain tiled hipped roof with a central brick stack. There are two windows, which are sashes with glazing bars, and two gabled dormers that have casements with glazing bars. The entrance doorway is adorned with pilasters and a pediment, and it has a panelled door.

Local climate

High 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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