The Old Doctor's House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. House.

The Old Doctor's House

WRENN ID
brooding-sentry-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1955
Type
House
Address
The Old Doctor's House, New Street, Stradbroke
OS grid reference
TM 228 738
Coordinates
52.31757, 1.26889
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Doctor's House is a house dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, likely built in several phases, with significant alterations made in the late 18th and 19th centuries. It features a large H-shaped plan with flanking cross-wings and an additional short section at the rear parallel to the central range. The house is timber framed and plastered, topped with a roof of concrete pantiles. It has a wooden modillion eaves cornice, and the wings are adorned with plain bargeboards and spike finials. The building is two storeys high with attics, and it has sash windows with glazing bars; the upper floor windows have six panes each, while the ground floor features four tripartite windows. All windows are fitted with hoodmoulds. The ground floor, positioned forward between the wings, includes a two-storey splayed porch. The mid-20th century replacement doorcase has fluted pilasters, a triglyph frieze, and a pedimented dentil cornice, leading to a six-panel door. There are two stacks with heavy plain white brick shafts. Inside, one ground floor room retains a 17th-century ceiling with a decorative band of vine foliage around the border.

Local climate

The Old Doctor's House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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