Wood House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. House.
Wood House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-threshold-spindle
- 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
- Wood House, America Hill, Witnesham
- OS grid reference
- TM 184 505
- Coordinates
- 52.11053, 1.18876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wood House is a house dating from the early to mid 17th century, with alterations made in the early 20th century. It features a two-cell lobby-entrance plan and stands two storeys high with attics. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a plaintiled roof that is hipped at the right-hand end. A central chimney made of red brick is present, along with gabled plaintiled casement dormers. The windows are early 20th-century, two-light casements with leaded glazing. There is a one-storey gabled plaintiled entrance porch that includes a panelled door. Inside, the typical 17th-century framing is exposed, and there is an original newel staircase in the entrance lobby that rises through both storeys. A massive central chimney is also a notable feature, with the right-hand brick arched parlour fireplace being exposed.
Local climate
Wood House 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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