Ringshall House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. A C17 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Ringshall House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-cornice-rowan
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ringshall House, Bulls Ash Road, IP14 2JD
- OS grid reference
- TM 053 508
- Coordinates
- 52.11807, 0.9974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ringshall House is a farmhouse built around 1620-1630, with significant remodelling in the mid-19th century. It features a two-cell lobby-entrance plan and an original rear service wing. The building is two storeys high with attics and is timber-framed, encased in mid-19th century gault brick. The roof is plain tiled and has a central 17th-century chimney made of red brick. The windows are mid-19th century sashes with stone lintels and large panes.
The entrance porch, added in the mid-19th century, is two storeys tall with a flat roof and parapets. The corner pilasters rise to the parapets as piers, topped with limestone copings and ball finials. The entrance doorway features sunk pilasters and a mid-20th century door with six fielded panels. The rear wing is one storey with attics and is encased in mid-20th century red brick.
At either end of the front range, the gable tie-beams have a frieze of carved fishes. Inside, the parlour on the right boasts a fine plaster ceiling from around 1620, with beams and cornice featuring sunk spandrels adorned with vine-scrolls and fleurs-de-lys in each quadrant. The chamber above has similar fleurs-de-lys and simpler mouldings on the beams. An altered dog-leg staircase has fretted splat balusters and square newels with crude interlace carving. The roof structure includes close-studding and a two-tier butt-purlin design.
Local climate
Ringshall House 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2009
- 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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