Old Timbers is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.

Old Timbers

WRENN ID
cold-brass-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1988
Type
House
Address
Old Timbers, the Street, Rickinghall Superior
OS grid reference
TM 040 752
Coordinates
52.33732, 0.99421
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Timbers is a house dating from the 17th century, which was refronted in the early 19th century and altered in the 20th century. It has a timber frame that is plastered and refronted in knapped flint with red brick dressings, topped with a thatched roof. The house consists of two cells with an end stack and has one storey plus an attic. The central entrance is flanked by cross casements, all featuring cambered heads. The eaves are cogged, with moulded bricks flanking a three-light dormer at the front and on the left end. The right end has an internal stack with a rebuilt capping. The left end is plastered and has one and two-light casements, along with exposed plates and purlins. At the rear, there is an added external stack on the left and a plain-tiled brick lean-to outshut from the 20th century. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Old Timbers sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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