The Old Custom House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1950. Customs house, house.
The Old Custom House
- WRENN ID
- strange-obsidian-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1950
- Type
- Customs house, house
- Address
- The Old Custom House, 223, High Street, Aldeburgh, IP15 5DN
- OS grid reference
- TM 464 562
- Coordinates
- 52.14929, 1.6005
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Custom House is a customs house, now a residential building, dating from the early 19th century. It was altered and converted into a house in the 20th century. The structure is made of gault brick, rendered at the rear, with a pantiled roof and an internal gable end stack of brick.
The exterior features a two-storey front with two windows. The entrance is located on the first floor and consists of a six-panel door set in a reeded doorcase, which is accessed by a flight of eight stone-faced brick steps. On the ground floor, there are two large fixed windows, each originally having 20 panes; the window on the right has been partly converted into a glazed door. Both ground floor windows have segmental arches. Flanking the upper door are three-light 19th-century metal casement windows. The rear elevation has been refenestrated with four 20th-century Crittall windows and features a dentil eaves cornice. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Custom 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 1999
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