St Michael's Close is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Former rectory. 1 related planning application.

St Michael's Close

WRENN ID
forbidden-rubble-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1951
Type
Former rectory
Address
St Michael's Close, 1-5, Church Street (Off the Churchyard), Framlingham, IP13 9BJ
OS grid reference
TM 285 635
Coordinates
52.22255, 1.34404
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a former Rectory, now divided into flats. The building has a 16th-century timber-frame core, with significant alterations in the early 19th century and mid-19th century. The west front is built of white brick, while the east front has a rendered finish in a Tudor style. The building is two storeys high and has a complex form. The roofs are covered in plain tiles on the east side and slates on the west.

The west (garden) front is primarily faced in white brick and features a moulded parapet with sunk panels. It also has two rounded bay projections, each with three windows on each storey. The upper-storey windows are small-paned sashes in shallow reveals, topped with moulded cast iron lintels. The ground-storey windows are long cross windows extending to ground level, with additional horizontal glazing-bars and cast iron lintels matching those above. A tripartite sash window is above the front door, which is sheltered by a cast-iron openwork porch.

Local climate

St Michael's Close sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
  • 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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