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

Bennets Ye Olde Guildhall

WRENN ID
forbidden-mantel-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1955
Type
House
Address
Bennets Ye Olde Guildhall, Mill Road, Buxhall
OS grid reference
TM 001 578
Coordinates
52.18256, 0.92627
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bennet's Ye Olde Guildhall is a pair of houses that were originally built as one in the early 17th century, with a lower 18th-century range on the left. The buildings are two storeys and one storey with attics, constructed from timber framing and roughcast, topped with thatched roofs. Bennet's features a 19th-century eyebrow casement dormer and a 17th-century axial chimney made of narrow red bricks, which has a 19th-century cap with a sawtooth band. The windows at Bennet's include small-pane casements, with three early 19th-century windows that have very small panes, and two early 19th-century boarded entrance doors. Ye Olde Guildhall has mid-20th-century casements and a thatched gabled entrance porch with a boarded door. The higher section of the building has plain framing with lambstongue chamfer-stops and a side purlin roof supported by principal rafters. To the right, there is an additional cell that was added in the mid-20th century, and there is significant reuse of timber from the 15th and 16th centuries.

Local climate

Bennets Ye Olde Guildhall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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