Knoll House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. A C17 House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Knoll House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-tower-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1987
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Knoll House, Back Road, Fressingfield, IP21 5PE
- OS grid reference
- TM 260 776
- Coordinates
- 52.34992, 1.31824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knoll House is a house and former shop dating from the early 17th century, likely built in two phases. It features a timber frame with plastered walls and has a roof covered with plain tiles at the front and black pantiles at the rear. The building is two storeys high with an attic. It has 18th-century casement windows fitted with modern square-leaded glass.
On the left side, there is a lobby entrance with a two-storey gabled porch added around 1900, which includes a six-panel door with the upper two panels glazed. There is also another doorway from the 19th century featuring a six-panel fielded door, reeded architrave, and cornice. To the right, a late 19th-century projecting shopfront has two large-paned windows that are splayed to the doorway, an inset half-glazed door, and a plain oblong fanlight. A smaller projecting shop window is located nearby. Inside, there is a plain internal stack, and the upper floor displays some good studding with heavy straight braces. The shop interior retains much of its late 19th-century partitioning against the walls.
Local climate
Knoll House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
- 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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