Dairy and bakehouse range immediately south of Tudor Grange is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Dairy, bakehouse. 3 related planning applications.
Dairy and bakehouse range immediately south of Tudor Grange
- WRENN ID
- first-pavement-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1955
- Type
- Dairy, bakehouse
- Address
- Dairy and bakehouse range immediately south of Tudor Grange, Main Road, Nettlestead, IP8 4QL
- OS grid reference
- TM 082 489
- Coordinates
- 52.09937, 1.03921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dairy and bakehouse range, built around 1600, is located immediately south of Tudor Grange, which was previously known as Watering Farmhouse. At the time of the survey, part of the building was being used as a farm office.
This two-storey structure is timber-framed, with the front infilled with herringbone bricknogging, likely added in the late 19th or early 20th century. The rear features plastered wattle-and-daub infill panels. Notably, the close-studding includes unusual paired serpentine braces at each corner. The ground storey walling was mostly rebuilt in the 19th century using red brick. The roof is plain tiled and hipped at the left-hand end, where the bakehouse is located.
Inside the bakehouse, there is a red brick chimney that was added in the 17th or 18th century. The upper floor retains all ten original diamond-mullioned windows, most of which are four lights. One window has an internal boarded sliding shutter, while most have battened louvres on the outside. The ground storey features various 19th-century casements. A well-crafted original moulded plank entrance door faces the service wing of the house.
The bakehouse on the left-hand end has a two-bay design with a lightly smoke-blackened roof, indicating it was likely unfloored in the past. The central two-bay area was probably used as a dairy with a granary above, as the upper room still contains grain bins. The open trusses feature strongly-cambered tie-beams with cranked arch-braces, and the roof is supported by good wind-braced clasped purlins. The upper part of the building remains largely unaltered, making it an excellent example of its type.
Local climate
Dairy and bakehouse range immediately south of Tudor Grange 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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