Red House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. A Early C18 Farmhouse.
Red House
- WRENN ID
- over-screen-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Red House, Gray's Lane, Wissett
- OS grid reference
- TM 367 799
- Coordinates
- 52.36648, 1.47631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Red House is a former farmhouse that dates back to the early 18th century and was enlarged in the early 19th century. The building has two storeys and attics with an irregular shape. It is primarily constructed of red brick, although part of it likely has a timber-framed core, and it is covered with plain tiles. The house features several internal chimney stacks with plain red brick shafts. Most of the windows are early 19th-century, three-light casements with transoms and segmental arched heads, surrounded by frames, and square-leaded panes; some mid-20th-century replacements are in a matching style. The entrance door has six panels. A brick on the south (garden) front is dated 1808, which may indicate when the house was extended.
The older section of the building, which likely comprises the original house, forms an L-shaped section that is now the east wing and part of the south range. On the south side, there is a three-bay room aligned east-west, featuring ovolo-moulded main beams, which is linked by a chimney stack to the three-bay east wing that is aligned north-south. This wing is divided into a two-bay heated room and a single-bay unheated service room. The ceilings in this part of the house are plain and exposed, with chamfered main beams and substantial joists set on edge. The remainder of the house includes characteristic Regency fittings.
Local climate
Red House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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