11, Theatre Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1951. Original residence, workhouse. 5 related planning applications.
11, Theatre Street
- WRENN ID
- winding-paling-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1951
- Type
- Original residence, workhouse
- Address
- 11, Theatre Street, Woodbridge, IP12 4NE
- OS grid reference
- TM 269 491
- Coordinates
- 52.09443, 1.31214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 11 Theatre Street is a 16th-century building, originally a residence associated with a Free School founded between 1577 and 1585. Prior to that, it may have served as a Guildhall. Records indicate a Master named Parklyfe in 1595, and an entry for Charles Reeve in 1589, linked to Woodbridge School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. The endowment for the school came from Thomas Annot of Lowestoft. The property was briefly lost to Woodbridge in 1607, but returned in 1668 and then used as a workhouse. The building is two storeys and has an attic with a gable window, boarded up on the first floor. It features an overhanging upper storey and a former carriageway entrance. Originally half-timbered, the exterior is now plastered, retaining a carved corner post and four pendent four-centred arches carved into the bressumer. It has three sash windows in flush frames, one casement window, and two four-panel doors. The building forms a group with Nos. 7 to 13.
Local climate
11, Theatre Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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