Friston House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1983. A Early C19 House.
Friston House
- WRENN ID
- grey-stronghold-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early C19
- Address
- Friston House, Saxmundham Road
- OS grid reference
- TM 409 607
- Coordinates
- 52.19219, 1.52364
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Friston House is a home built in the early 19th century, with later additions at the rear. It is constructed of yellow brick and features a slate roof. The building is two stories high and has a three-window range with sash windows that include glazing bars and flat brick arches. The central doorway is flanked by engaged Tuscan columns and has an entablature above it. The door itself has eight panels and is topped with a rectangular fanlight that includes ornamental iron glazing bars. The house has overhanging eaves and a shallow pitched hipped roof, with a curved bay on the right-hand return front.
Local climate
Friston House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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