Fairmead is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1977. A Early 19th century House.
Fairmead
- WRENN ID
- swift-ember-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1977
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Address
- Fairmead, 726, Norwich Road
- OS grid reference
- TM 140 475
- Coordinates
- 52.08524, 1.12342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fairmead is an early 19th-century red brick house located on Norwich Road in Whitton. The building has two storeys, featuring a wing added at the north-west end. The wing has a range of one window, while the main block has a three-window range, although the centre window is blocked. The windows are double-hung sashes with vertical glazing bars set in stuccoed reveals. At the front, there is a central stuccoed Tuscan porch with plain columns that projects outward. The roof is hipped and covered with slate.
Local climate
Fairmead sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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