The Croft and Attached Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1954. House. 1 related planning application.

The Croft and Attached Garden Wall

WRENN ID
former-lintel-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 November 1954
Type
House
Address
The Croft and Attached Garden Wall, the Street, Wattisfield, IP22 1NT
OS grid reference
TM 009 740
Coordinates
52.32752, 0.94728
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Croft and attached garden wall is a house dating from the early and late 17th century and the early 19th century. It is timber-framed, with exposed framing on the front and rendered surfaces elsewhere. The roofs are covered with plaintiles, while the front features slated eaves and the 19th-century addition has slate roofing. The building has two storeys and attics, with a complex plan formed by two 17th-century ranges creating an L-shape, infilled by an early 19th-century block.

The front range, which runs north-south, is the oldest part and has a two-cell lobby entrance form. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack with a plain rectangular shaft that is corbelled at the head, and a later external stack on the south gable end. The house features a modillion cornice and two gabled dormers with two-light casement windows. There are five windows in total, all of which are two-light replacements from the 20th century. The central entrance has a six-panelled half-glazed door. Inside, the framing is plain, with some reused timbers, chamfered main beams, and joists set on edge. The chimney stack has been tunnelled through to create a passage leading to a wide dogleg stair in the 19th-century block, and the later end stack includes a reused carved lintel. The roof features clasped purlins.

The long east-west range, which serves as a service wing, is constructed with similar materials but has a brick ground floor. It includes 20th-century metal windows, a plank door with a triangular pediment, and two gabled dormers. Attached to the southeast corner of the house is a short section of high garden wall made of curving bands of rubble flint and old red brick.

Local climate

The Croft and Attached Garden Wall 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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