Rayleigh House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Rayleigh House
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-bastion-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rayleigh House, the Street, Rickinghall Superior, IP22 1DY
- OS grid reference
- TM 045 755
- Coordinates
- 52.34007, 1.00103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rayleigh House is a house, which was later used as a shop, built in the 18th century and altered and extended in the 19th century. It has a timber frame with a roughcast exterior and a steeply pitched corrugated sheet roof. The building consists of two cells with a central stack and is two storeys high with an attic.
On the ground floor, to the right, there is a four-panelled door and a nine-pane casement window with a hoodboard. To the left, there is a vertically panelled door and an eight-pane former shop window with a hooded cornice. The first floor features part-opening three-light glazing bar casements. The central ridge stack is prominent, and the right end has a pentice board to the weatherboarded gable, which includes a small attic window. The left end has a two-light glazing bar attic casement, with exposed plates and purlins.
At the rear, there is a two-light casement and a four-over-eight pane sash window. Additionally, there is a single-storey 19th-century kitchen bay with a pantiled roof and an extruded stack in a lean-to outshut. Inside, there is an early 19th-century fireplace and cross axial binding beams.
Local climate
Rayleigh House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 2021
- 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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