78-79, New Road is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Pair of estate cottages.

78-79, New Road

WRENN ID
veiled-pediment-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Type
Pair of estate cottages
Address
78-79, New Road, Helmingham
OS grid reference
TM 186 586
Coordinates
52.18302, 1.19634
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 78-79 New Road are a pair of estate cottages that were originally built as one house, likely in the late 16th century or early 17th century. The cottages are two storeys tall and have a three-cell plan. They are constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, featuring some 19th-century pargetting in large panels. The roof is pantiled, and there is a 17th-century axial chimney along with two 19th-century end chimneys, all made of red brick. The windows are mainly mid-20th century small-pane casements, and there is a 20th-century half-glazed panelled door, which may be located at the original cross-passage entrance. In the mid-19th century, a brick and pantiled lean-to extension was added to both ends of the building when it was divided into cottages. The interior has not been examined.

Local climate

78-79, New Road sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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