Burkitt House is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1951. A C18 House.
Burkitt House
- WRENN ID
- tired-flue-harvest
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Burkitt House, 30, Chapel Street, Woodbridge, IP12 4NF
- OS grid reference
- TM 269 492
- Coordinates
- 52.09529, 1.31214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burkitt House, located at 30 Chapel Street, is a 18th-century building with ownership records dating back to 1710. The initials and date "PL, LL, CL 1792" likely refer to the Lathbury family and indicate later additions and alterations. In the garden, there is a lead pump, now used as an ornament, featuring a panel with the initials and date "1731, IH."
The house is two stories with an attic and has a gable end window. It is constructed of red brick, with the center section breaking forward. The roof is tiled, and there is a wood bracket cornice and a plinth. The façade includes two sash windows with glazing bars and flush frames, along with three blank panels, one of which is arched. The ground floor features three-light sashes, and while there are shutter recesses for the ground floor windows, the shutters are missing.
The front door is set in an arched recess and consists of an eight-panel semi-circular headed door, surrounded by a semi-circular arrangement of fixed lights with radial bars, and the upper panels are diagonally fielded. At the rear, there is an earlier timber-framed wing with leaded windows. Inside, there is one panelled room that includes arched niches and fitted drawers made of mahogany.
Local climate
Burkitt House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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