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

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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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