Bedingfield Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1971. Almshouses. 2 related planning applications.
Bedingfield Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- long-pedestal-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1971
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Bedingfield Almshouses, 26-32, Lambseth Street, Eye
- OS grid reference
- TM 144 740
- Coordinates
- 52.32269, 1.14547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bedingfield Almshouses are a group of almshouses located on Lambseth Street in Eye. They were founded in 1636 by Nicholas Bedingfield, rebuilt in 1850, and converted for three occupations between 1975 and 1977. The building is constructed of red brick with blue brick diapering and features a roof made of fish-scale tiles. It is a single-storey structure with a five-window range. The facade has three projecting gables; the outer gables have straight parapets on kneelers, while the central gable has a shaped gable on kneelers. Each gable contains a three-light stone mullioned window with a stilted head. Between the gables, there is a two-light mullioned window and a vertically-panelled door, with an additional entrance on the left end. Above the gable windows, there are stone inscription scrolls that read: "Rebuilt...Anno Domini...MDCCCL." The roof is gabled and has two transverse ridge stacks with twin decorated circular flues. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Bedingfield Almshouses sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 sale records on file
- 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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