Wellington House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1950. Vicarage, residential home. 5 related planning applications.

Wellington House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 July 1950
Type
Vicarage, residential home
Address
Wellington House, 2, Finborough Road, Stowmarket, IP14 1PW
OS grid reference
TM 046 587
Coordinates
52.18891, 0.99303
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wellington House is a residential home for the elderly, originally built as a vicarage in 1660 and later used as a school. The building has been altered in the early 19th century. It was originally timber-framed but now features extensive early 19th-century brick cladding. The house has plain tile roofs and a south-west front that is two storeys high with five bays. In the centre, there is an early 20th-century gabled porch, flanked by two late 19th-century 2/2 sash windows on either side, all under gauged segmental arches. The first floor has five early 19th-century 6/6 sash windows, also under gauged segmental arches. The gabled roof is adorned with pierced ceramic cresting.

At the rear, there are two full-height gabled wings separated by a central gabled feature. The north-east wing has a substantial transverse 17th-century chimney stack, while the south-east wing features a ridge stack with four octagonal flues and an external gable-end stack with two octagonal flues.

Inside, the ground-floor south room has wave-moulded cruciform bridging beams and is fitted with large-framed panelling from the 18th century. The cellar door is an early 17th-century plank style, complete with lock and hinges. The 19th-century staircase has two turned balusters per tread, and the roof structure includes principals, moved collars, and curved windbraces.

Local climate

Wellington 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 90% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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