Tannington Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Tannington Lodge
- WRENN ID
- frozen-mantel-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- TM 253 676
- Coordinates
- 52.26118, 1.30102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tannington Lodge is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It features a three-cell main range that faces south, with a return front facing west created by an extension to the parlour cell. To the east, there is a service range that nearly connects corner-to-corner with the main house and extends to the north. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a plaintiled roof. The west front showcases ashlar-lined plasterwork and a hipped roof. The service wing has red brick gable ends and a pantiled roof.
The farmhouse is two storeys tall. The south front includes two 19th-century three-light casement windows, with a smaller window positioned halfway between the floors to the right. All windows feature wooden hoodmoulds. The lobby entrance consists of a late 19th-century gabled porch with a moulded depressed four-centred arch and a six-panel raised and fielded door, where the upper two panels are glazed. The arch has a glazed head with Y-tracery.
The symmetrical three-bay west front has the centre bay set slightly forward and includes late 19th-century two-light casement windows, each with a single slender horizontal glazing bar and wooden hoodmoulds. The stuccoed porch has an embattled parapet with polygonal corner turrets that rise above, and it features a moulded depressed four-centred arch. Similar turrets once adorned the main part of this facade.
The service range contains various windows, including one that is still slatted, a boarded half-door, and a gable stack. The interior has been Victorianised, concealing nearly all of the original structure. The roof over the hall and service end of the main range has two rows of stepped butt purlins, likely dating to around 1700, and a few sooted medieval timbers have been reused. The service range features an 18th-century frame with straight primary braces and a solid-tread stair. Surrounding the property is a medieval moat.
Local climate
Tannington Lodge 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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