Princewood is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. A C16 House.
Princewood
- WRENN ID
- woven-grate-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Princewood, Hall Road, Thorndon
- OS grid reference
- TM 143 689
- Coordinates
- 52.27643, 1.14121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Princewood is a house dating from the 16th century, with a 17th-century parlour addition on the right. It was renovated and extended at the rear around 1975. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof, and has a three-cell layout over one and a half storeys. The house features mid-20th century single-pane casement windows and a boarded door. There are two raking dormers and an internal stack with a shaft made of 19th-century red brick.
On the left gable end, there is a 16th-century diamond-mullioned window, which has been altered, along with another similar window in the rear wall and a third visible from the inside. The 16th-century section includes a hall and service cells, showcasing exposed irregular studding that reaches full height in the side walls, with reverse-curved braces passing through floor level. The hall is one bay wide and has substantial plain joists. There are remnants of cross-entry doorways and one service doorway, all with square heads. A tie beam above the service partition has been cut and replaced by long irregular braces from each wall post, which meet over a doorway in the center; one of these braces has been partly removed. The roof has side purlins and was originally half-hipped at the service end. The stack is a 17th-century addition, possibly replacing a timber flue, with plain studding at the later end.
Local climate
Princewood sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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