Priory House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House.

Priory House

WRENN ID
stony-railing-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Priory House, 4, South Entrance, Saxmundham
OS grid reference
TM 386 630
Coordinates
52.21356, 1.49141
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Priory House is a late 17th-century building that was originally two houses but is now a single dwelling. A rear range was added in the 19th century, and the property was combined, converted, and refenestrated in the mid-20th century. The house is timber-framed, rendered, and colourwashed, featuring a central brick stack beneath a plain tile roof. It has two parallel ranges.

The exterior showcases a two-storey front with four windows. There is a central 20th-century door set behind a 20th-century gabled porch. On either side of the door are 20th-century bow windows with four lights, and to the far left, there is a 20th-century garage door. The first floor has four casement windows, two of which are 19th-century three-light metal windows.

Inside, the house has a heavy scantling timber frame with jowled principal studs and tension and arched corner braces. A passageway to the first floor was created on the west side. The east wall contains one blocked late 17th-century lattice window. The roof structure includes collars and one tier of butt purlins. Pargetting on the north gable is related to an earlier house on that side, which has since been demolished.

Local climate

Priory 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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