Prettys House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. House. 4 related planning applications.
Prettys House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-flue-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Prettys House, Church Road, Bacton, IP14 4LW
- OS grid reference
- TM 054 672
- Coordinates
- 52.26478, 1.00899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pretty's House is a house dating from around 1600, featuring two storeys and attics. It has a three-cell lobby-entrance plan and is constructed with a timber frame and roughcast exterior. The roof is covered with pantiles and has an axial chimney made of roughcast brick.
The house includes 18th-century three-light casement windows with transoms and an 18th-century doorway at the lobby entrance, which has a six-panelled door. The upper panels of the door are glazed while the lower panels are fielded, and it is framed by an architrave and pediment with a pulvinated cornice.
The framing is fully exposed on the ground floor, with first-floor joists laid flat and featuring a slight chamfer. One girth has ovolo-moulding and dentilling. Inside, there are back-to-back lintelled open fireplaces in the hall and parlour. The parlour fireplace includes a reused early 16th-century lintel that has fine but damaged carving, depicting vinescroll with a central shield, embattling, and cresting.
Local climate
Prettys 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 — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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