The Beeches is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. House.
The Beeches
- WRENN ID
- muffled-brick-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Beeches, Old Ipswich Road, Claydon
- OS grid reference
- TM 132 495
- Coordinates
- 52.10347, 1.11216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beeches is a house built around 1840, featuring two storeys and an asymmetrical facade that is four windows wide. The building has a double pile plan and consists of nine bays, which are divided by flat pilasters that have simple mouldings at both the capital and base. Each pilaster supports an elliptical arch made of gauged brick, creating a blind arcade that runs along the entire frontage beneath the eaves. The roof is hipped with two spans, covered in slate, and has internal chimneys made of gault brick.
The windows are located in alternate bays and have flat arches of gauged brick, with small-pane sash windows at the ground storey that extend down to the floor. The entrance features a Tuscan portico porch with a flat entablature. The entrance door is recessed within panelled jambs and consists of three panels, with the upper panel being glazed. Above the door is an oblong fanlight with radiating bars.
Local climate
The Beeches 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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