High House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

High House

WRENN ID
dark-dormer-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
High House, Wilby Road, Stradbroke, IP21 5JP
OS grid reference
TM 231 727
Coordinates
52.30739, 1.27233
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High House is a 16th-century farmhouse located on Wilby Road in Stradbroke. The building is timber framed, with parts covered in mid-20th century colourwashed brick, including the facade, and some areas are roughcast-rendered. The roof is tiled with plain tiles at the front and pantiles at the rear. It has two storeys and follows a three-cell, lobby entry layout.

The windows are mid-20th century single-pane casements, while two original first-floor mullioned windows have been enlarged, and others remain exposed on the interior. The house features an early 19th-century gabled porch with an original half-glazed door that has pointed-arch glazing bars in the upper panes, along with a hoodmould over the doorway. There is an internal stack and a smaller later gable stack to the right. Inside, much of the high-quality timber framing is visible, with storey posts in the hall and parlour that have carved consoles. The hall joists are closely spaced and chamfered, and there are two arched brick fireplaces on the first floor.

Local climate

High 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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