Cliff House is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1977. House.
Cliff House
- WRENN ID
- tall-lantern-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cliff House, Cliff Quay
- OS grid reference
- TM 170 431
- Coordinates
- 52.04452, 1.16429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cliff House is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered building with early to mid-19th century additions at the north end. The original 18th-century section faces west towards the quay and has two storeys plus attics. It features a two-window range, with a lower extension of one window range at the south end. The ground storey includes a large early 19th-century bay window and a 20th-century entrance porch. The west front has two gabled wings with decorative bargeboards and a central section with a castellated parapet. The window arrangement is 1:2:1, and the windows are typically double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The north central doorway is highlighted by a large mullioned fanlight and an ornate pediment supported by brackets carved with figures. The roofs are tiled and feature a modillion eaves cornice on the carved brackets, with two flat-headed dormers situated between the 16th and 19th-century sections. Additionally, there is a tall 19th-century chimney stack.
Local climate
Cliff House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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