The Chestnuts is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Chestnuts
- WRENN ID
- waning-vault-vale
- 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
- The Chestnuts, Hestley Green, Thorndon, IP23 7LR
- OS grid reference
- TM 153 674
- Coordinates
- 52.26289, 1.15395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chestnuts is a house dating from the 16th to 17th century, constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a thatched roof. It features a three-cell, cross-entry layout and is one and a half storeys tall. The building has mid-20th century standard casement windows and a mid-20th century plank door with a gabled open porch. There are two eyebrow dormers on the roof, and an internal stack with a shaft that is mostly cement-rendered. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
The Chestnuts sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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