Prospect House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. House.

Prospect House

WRENN ID
veiled-footing-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1955
Type
House
Address
Prospect House, 1, Ipswich Road, Needham Market
OS grid reference
TM 090 547
Coordinates
52.15152, 1.05408
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Prospect House is a house dating from around 1800, with a likely earlier core. It is constructed of painted brick and features a hipped plain-tiled roof with an axial chimney made of red brick, along with flat-roofed sash window dormers. The building has two storeys and attics, with a three-window range on the main elevation, where the left-hand bay has blind windows. The original windows have flat arches made of gauged brick, flush frames, and small-pane sashes. On the return elevation facing Coddenham Road, there are a pair of 19th-century splayed flat-roofed bay windows. The entrance features a six-panelled door with panelled reveals, and is flanked by engaged Tuscan columns topped with a cornice enriched with mutules.

Local climate

Prospect House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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