Loundes is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. A C16-early C17 House.
Loundes
- WRENN ID
- stranded-arch-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Loundes, High Street, Thorndon
- OS grid reference
- TM 142 691
- Coordinates
- 52.27841, 1.1392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Loundes is a house dating from the 16th to early 17th century, built in two phases, with the parlour end on the right being a later addition. It features a timber frame with plaster and a thatched roof. The house is two storeys high and has a three-cell layout. There are four mid-20th century casement windows with small panes, and a modern boarded and battened door where a cross-entry would have been. Inside, there is an internal stack with a square red brick shaft from the mid-20th century and a lean-to addition on the left gable end. The interior has been modernised, but the hall and parlour chambers still show intact studding and original window openings. The hall has plain joists, while the parlour features an axial bridging beam with ogee stop-chamfers, with the joists concealed. The stack may date from the same period as the parlour end, possibly from the early 17th century.
Local climate
Loundes 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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