Thornfield is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1954. House.

Thornfield

WRENN ID
fading-stone-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 November 1954
Type
House
Address
Thornfield, the Street, Walsham-Le-Willows
OS grid reference
TM 002 712
Coordinates
52.30282, 0.93492
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thornfield is a house, formerly containing a shop, dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of red brick with blue headers and has a plaintile roof. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring a brick cornice with rounded dentils and a plain brick band at the front. The gables are tumbled and incorporate end chimney-stacks with plain rectangular shafts.

There is one dormer with a shallow segmental-arched lead-covered roof and a two-light plain casement window. The upper floor has three old three-light casement windows with pintle hinges and two horizontal bars on the lights. On the ground floor, to the left, there is a similar window with a high segmental arch made of two-colour brick. To the right, the former shop front features a flat-roofed canted bay with a six-panel door, where the top four panels are glazed, a rectangular plain fanlight, and two flanking fixed small-paned windows.

The central entrance to the house has a 20th-century 'Georgian' door with a bolection-moulded architrave and a moulded triangular pediment. To the left of the main house, there is a mid-19th century two-storey addition made of kidney flint, with red brick quoins and dressings, a plaintiled roof, a 20th-century plain casement window on each storey, a recessed plank door, and an end chimney.

Local climate

Thornfield sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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