Number 29 Smithy Tea Rooms and Number 28 is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Number 29 Smithy Tea Rooms and Number 28
- WRENN ID
- solitary-courtyard-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Number 29 Smithy Tea Rooms and Number 28, High Street, Orford, IP12 2NW
- OS grid reference
- TM 423 499
- Coordinates
- 52.09489, 1.53611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 29, known as Smithy Tea-Rooms, and Number 28 are a pair of cottages dating from the early 18th century. They feature a red brick facade over a timber frame and have modern pantiles on the roof. Number 28 has a projecting brick porch. Both buildings have undergone significant alterations. They are two storeys tall with scattered windows, which are modern casements with glazing bars, and have segmental brick arches. Each building has a modern entrance door. There is a plain brick stack located over the entrance porch of Number 28, which likely served as the original lobby entrance. To the right of Number 29, there is a single storey structure that was formerly a smithy, but it is not listed on its own.
Local climate
Number 29 Smithy Tea Rooms and Number 28 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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