Dial House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. House.
Dial House
- WRENN ID
- former-truss-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dial House, the Street, Cretingham
- OS grid reference
- TM 227 605
- Coordinates
- 52.19778, 1.25867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dial House is a house that was formerly known as The Bell Inn. It dates back to the 17th century, with a 19th-century rendered facade. The building has a timber frame and a pantile roof, and it stands two storeys high. On the entrance front, there are three 3-light casements on both the far right and left sides. The first floor features six 2-light casements. There is a two-flue stack at the ridge on the far left and a three-flue stack on the far right. The interior has not been inspected. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Dial House 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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