Eye Theatre is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1951. Theatre, former hotel. 6 related planning applications.
Eye Theatre
- WRENN ID
- seventh-jamb-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1951
- Type
- Theatre, former hotel
- Address
- Eye Theatre, Broad Street, IP23 7AF
- OS grid reference
- TM 145 738
- Coordinates
- 52.32045, 1.14653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Eye Theatre, formerly known as the White Lion Hotel, is located on Broad Street and was originally built in 1738. It underwent alterations in the 19th century and was converted into a theatre in 1988. The building features whitewashed and rendered brick with a machine tile roof. The entrance on the west side is designed in the style of a Greek temple front, added around 1975, and includes a pediment supported by a pair of unfluted columns in front of double glazed doors. To the east, there is a single-storey theatre block with four 6/9 unhorned sash windows arranged in a continuous range, along with a Venetian window in the east gable. Inside, the theatre has a flat ceiling adorned with late 20th-century plaster roundels and 19th-century cast-iron ventilator panels, as well as plank and muntin dado panelling.
Local climate
Eye Theatre 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 93% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 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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