Unoccupied House, 170 Metres South of St Margaret's Priory is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. House.

Unoccupied House, 170 Metres South of St Margaret's Priory

WRENN ID
shifting-pedestal-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 April 1988
Type
House
OS grid reference
TL 972 563
Coordinates
52.16974, 0.88322
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This unoccupied house, located 170 meters south of St Margaret's Priory, dates from the mid or late 17th century. It features a three-cell lobby entrance plan and is one storey high with attics. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with some 18th and 19th century cable pattern pargetting. The roof, originally thatched, is now covered with asbestos-cement slates. There is an axial chimney that was rebuilt in 19th century red brick, along with a 19th century end chimney on the right side. The house has two mid-19th century sash windows with large panes and a six-panelled door at the lobby entrance, along with a boarded door to the right, both dating from around 1840. Inside, the house retains complete 17th century framing, including primary-braced close-studding and unchamfered floor joists that are laid flat and clamped to full-height studs. There is a lintelled open fireplace in the hall. At the time of the survey, the house was unoccupied and in poor condition.

Local climate

Unoccupied House, 170 Metres South of St Margaret's Priory 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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