Crown House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Farmhouse, public house.

Crown House

WRENN ID
western-hammer-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 June 1988
Type
Farmhouse, public house
Address
Crown House, Fingal Street, Worlingworth
OS grid reference
TM 220 698
Coordinates
52.28227, 1.2534
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Crown House is a former farmhouse that later became a public house and is now a private dwelling. It dates from the first half of the 16th century, with an addition for a parlour made in the early 17th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, with the plaster designed to imitate ashlar. The roof is covered with plain tiles at the front and pantiles at the rear, featuring a half-hipped design over the service end to the left.

Crown House has two storeys and an attic, arranged in a three-cell form. It includes various casement windows from the 19th and mid-20th centuries; the hall has mid-20th century windows at both the front and rear, with replacement diamond mullions set in the original frames. The entrance features a lobby with a gabled porch made of colourwashed brick and a 20th-century boarded door. The chimney stack has a mid-20th century shaft.

The earlier part of the house showcases widely spaced studs with tension braces. Inside, the hall and service end have plain joists, and the roof structure is a queen-post design. The parlour addition also features widely spaced studs, with arched bracing at the corners. On the ground floor, there is an axial bridging beam with grooved ogee stop-chamfers, plain joists, and remnants of a secondary window with ovolo mullions. The staircase dates from the 16th to 17th century and is a newel design.

Local climate

Crown 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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