Bridewell House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. House. 6 related planning applications.
Bridewell House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-glass-reed
- 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
- Bridewell House, the Street, Botesdale, IP22 1BS
- OS grid reference
- TM 047 757
- Coordinates
- 52.34198, 1.00407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridewell House is an early 17th-century house, originally a cottage, that has been altered and extended in the mid-19th century and later used as a shop. The house is timber-framed and has a roughcast exterior. It has a steeply pitched pantiled roof. The original plan was for two cells and five bays, with a stack at one end that is now truncated. Two bays have been added to the rear right side. The house has two storeys, with an attic to the front.
The ground floor features a central entrance with a 19th-century door, with shaped brackets supporting a projecting hood. To the left is a projecting former shop front with a tall, architraved three-by-three pane sash window and a cornice. To the right is a 20th-century three-light canted bay window. The first floor has two architraved three-by-three pane sash windows. The right gable end, on the first floor and in the attic, has casement windows. At the rear, there is a two-light dormer and a lean-to outshut with a slate roof.
A 19th-century addition to the rear right side projects slightly and has ground floor casements and tall, architraved glazing bar sash windows on the first floor, with end stacks. The roof extends over a lean-to addition on the inner side.
The interior features close studding, stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a five-light diamond mullioned window opening, collars to principals clasping purlins, and reverse curved arched windbraces. The building is included for group value.
Local climate
Bridewell 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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