Church House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. A C18 House, former rectory.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-frieze-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1966
- Type
- House, former rectory
- Address
- Church House, Church Road, Otley
- OS grid reference
- TM 204 549
- Coordinates
- 52.14856, 1.22096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House is a house that was formerly a rectory, dating from the 16th or 17th century but largely rebuilt in the 18th century. It has a timber frame with colourwashed render and a plain tiled roof, and it stands two storeys high with an attic.
The entrance front features two slightly projecting wings on the right and left sides. The right wing has 2-light casement windows on the ground, first, and attic floors, while the left wing is similar but has French windows on the ground floor. A lean-to porch overlaps the ground floor of the right wing and the central range, featuring a 4-centred doorway on the right and a window with 2x3 panes on the left. To the left of the porch at ground floor level is a 2-light window and a painted arched window with Y-tracery. The first floor has two 2-light casements. A large chimney stack with a rectangular base and sawtoothed flues is located at the ridge, left of centre. The right gable end has a 2-light window and a single-light window on the ground floor, while the left gable end features a 20th-century lean-to glass conservatory at ground floor level with a door on the left and a 2-light attic window.
At the rear, there is a projecting 19th-century wing with a lean-to roof on the left side, which includes a plank door at ground floor level on the left and a single-light window on the right, along with additional windows on both floors.
Inside, there is a large, heavily moulded beam in one of the ground floor rooms.
Local climate
Church 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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