Daphne House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. A C19 House. 1 related planning application.
Daphne House
- WRENN ID
- odd-outpost-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Daphne House, Daphne Road, Orford, IP12 2NH
- OS grid reference
- TM 423 499
- Coordinates
- 52.09437, 1.53698
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Daphne House is an early 19th-century house located on Daphne Road, Orford. The building is constructed of gault brick with a slate roof. It is two storeys high and has a three-window front. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, set in flush frames. They are topped by gauged brick flat arches. The main entrance features pilasters and a broken entablature with a triangular pediment. The original six-panel raised and fielded door has a semi-circular fanlight with radial glazing bars; a modern glazed porch has been added.
Local climate
Daphne 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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