Keeper's House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. House, gamekeeper's lodge.
Keeper's House
- WRENN ID
- frozen-baluster-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- House, gamekeeper's lodge
- Address
- Keeper's House, West Street, Rickinghall Inferior
- OS grid reference
- TM 025 728
- Coordinates
- 52.31636, 0.97059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Keeper's House is a Grade II listed building located on West Street in Rickinghall Inferior. This house, which was formerly a gamekeeper's lodge for West Hall, dates back to the early 19th century. It is constructed from clay lump and whitewashed brick, topped with plaintiled roofs. The building has an informal layout in a Picturesque Gothick style and consists of one storey.
Prominently, there is a canted bay that projects forward to the right of the center, featuring a pointed arched boarded door. This bay is flanked by two-light glazing bar casements with Y traceried pointed arched leaded heads and is capped with a semi-octagonal hipped roof. To the right, there is a bay where the roof slopes down to low eaves at the front. On the left, a recessed bay contains a similar Gothick window, supported by two tapering timber uprights at the front. The far left bay is built of brick and also features a Gothick window.
Both ends of the building have half-hipped roofs. The right end includes an added external stack, another Gothick window, and a small light. An axial ridge stack is located where the ridge of the forward canted bay meets the main ridge. At the rear, a cross range projects further, with a lean-to extending to the rear right. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Keeper's 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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