The Watering is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Farmhouse.
The Watering
- WRENN ID
- plain-groin-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Watering, Jacks Green Road, Creeting St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- TM 088 563
- Coordinates
- 52.16604, 1.05238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watering is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with significant alterations made in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan. The structure is timber-framed and rough-cast, with the first floor jettied on the southeast side. The rear wall and one end wall display exposed close-studding with arch wind-bracing. The roof is covered with concrete tiles, replacing the original plain tiles, and has a red brick axial chimney. The windows are small-pane 19th-century sashes. There is a 19th-century gabled entrance porch made of red brick, which includes a six-panelled door. To the left of the main building is a small early 20th-century extension, while to the right is a forward-projecting wing, both constructed of red brick.
Local climate
The Watering 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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