Carpenters is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. House. 2 related planning applications.

Carpenters

WRENN ID
seventh-foundation-equinox
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
Carpenters, Wickham Road, Finningham, IP14 4HT
OS grid reference
TM 067 692
Coordinates
52.28284, 1.02922
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an early to mid-18th century house in Finningham, originally known as the White House. It was altered in the 20th century. The house is timber-framed with plastered walls, and has red brick end walls. It has black glazed pantiled and plaintiled roofs. The front of the house has three bays with end stacks and a two-bay service wing to the rear, forming a T-shaped plan. The house has two storeys, with a single storey and attic to the rear.

The original central entrance has been replaced with a window. The front has transomed, three-light, part-opening, architraved casements, with boxed eaves. The brick walls are in Flemish bond, with flared headers, moulded kneelers to the coped gable end parapets, external stacks with triple offsets and oversailing caps. Casements have been inserted into the right end wall. The service wing has a 20th-century panelled door and doorcase on the left return, along with 20th-century casements and two gabled dormers.

The rear gable end has an external stack with offsets, a tapering shaft, and a flanking pantiled oven. Exposed plates and purlins are also visible.

Inside, some of the original 18th-century timber framing is exposed, featuring ogee stop chamfered cross axial binding beams, through tension bracing, moulded jowled posts, and chamfered joists in the service wing.

Local climate

Carpenters 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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