Ropers Row is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Ropers Row
- WRENN ID
- solemn-stair-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ropers Row, 3 and 4, Park Road, Combs, IP14 2JP
- OS grid reference
- TM 038 564
- Coordinates
- 52.16907, 0.97971
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A house, likely dating from the 16th century, is situated on Combs Park Road. It was once subdivided into two cottages. The building is two storeys high and originally had a three-cell plan, with a later extension to the north, probably in the 17th or 18th century. The exterior is timber-framed and plastered. The roof is thatched, with a hip at the south end. Notably, there is a red brick chimney, likely from the 16th or early 17th century, along with chimneys from the 19th century and 20th century. Windows are casements from the 19th and 20th centuries, and there are various boarded entrance doors. Much of the timber framing is concealed, but alterations were underway at the time of the building’s survey, revealing evidence of unglazed windows in some studwork. The attached cottages to the north, numbered 1 and 2 Ropers Row, are not considered to have group value.
Local climate
Ropers Row 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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