Numbers 5 and 6 (Harwell House) with Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. House.
Numbers 5 and 6 (Harwell House) with Attached Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- narrow-balcony-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TM 047 758
- Coordinates
- 52.34206, 1.00413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 5 and 6, known as Harwell House, is a house that was later divided into three dwellings and is now two. It dates from the early 18th century, with alterations and extensions made in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with vitrified headers, and features a plastered timber frame at the rear. The roof is black glazed pantiles, with plain tiles at the back.
The house has a three-cell cross entry plan with the service end on the left and stands two storeys tall. The front was largely rebuilt in the 19th century. To the left of the centre, there is a recessed architraved six-panelled door, a half-glazed door to the far right, and a blocked door to the left. The ground floor has four recessed single glazing bar sashes, while the first floor has three, all with cambered heads. The building features an offset plinth, a rendered plat band, and boxed eaves, along with stepped kneelers at the coped gable end parapets. Internal stacks are located at the rear, with one axial to the right of centre and another cross axial to the left. The left gable end has two plat bands and blocked openings.
At the rear, there is a gable behind the service bay, a four-panelled door in the centre, and a 19th-century slate-roofed lean-to addition for stairs, along with a two-light box dormer on the right. Inside, there are diagonally set corner fireplaces and indented ogee stop-chamfered binding beams.
Attached to the rear left is a late 16th or early 17th-century outbuilding, which was formerly stabling for the Greyhound Public House. This outbuilding is timber-framed, rendered and weatherboarded, with a steeply pitched corrugated sheet roof. It has two bays and was originally longer, featuring a door towards the rear and an upper 18-pane casement, with close studding and a mid-rail, along with a clasped purlin roof.
Local climate
Numbers 5 and 6 (Harwell House) with Attached Outbuilding 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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