Buckshorns is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Buckshorns
- WRENN ID
- lesser-sentry-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Buckshorns, Upper Street, Witnesham, IP6 9EW
- OS grid reference
- TM 183 516
- Coordinates
- 52.11984, 1.18839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The house at Buckshorns dates to approximately 1600, with alterations carried out around 1950. It is a timber-framed and plastered building, retaining much of its exposed studwork. The roof is covered in concrete tiles and features gabled casement dormers. A central chimney is constructed from red brick. The windows are 2-light casements with leaded lights. A 2-storey entrance porch, built in the 20th century, has a boarded and battened door. The plan is unusual, comprising two equal cells at ground floor level on either side of a narrow central chimney bay; the first floor contains a single long room at each end. The house retains unchamfered lodged 1st floor joists throughout, which may have been reused from an earlier structure. It has a wind-braced clasped-purlin roof. This building is notable despite the 20th-century alterations due to its complete timber-framed structure and unusual form.
Local climate
Buckshorns 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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