Woolpit Institute (Part) is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1954. Museum, meeting rooms.
Woolpit Institute (Part)
- WRENN ID
- sheer-solder-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1954
- Type
- Museum, meeting rooms
- Address
- Woolpit Institute (Part), Green Hill
- OS grid reference
- TL 974 624
- Coordinates
- 52.22447, 0.88895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woolpit Institute is a museum and meeting room located in Woolpit Green Hill, dating from the early 16th century. The building has two storeys and two bays, constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior. The framing is fully exposed, featuring plaster infill panels and arch windbraced close-studding. Originally, the first floor jutted out towards the street, but the front wall was pushed forward in the 18th or 19th century. The roof is covered with plain tiles.
On the first storey, there is a linked series of four windows; the outer pair consists of three-light casements, while the inner pair are mullioned. All windows have diamond leaded glazing. The ground storey features a pair of hipped bay windows, also with plain tiled roofs, connected by an open gabled porch supported by posts. The lintel of the porch is carved with "1914 IN MEMORIAM 1918." The inner entrance door is boarded. Inside, the upper room reveals an exposed crownpost roof, with plain square posts and four-way plank braces, along with a pair of long renewed rising braces extending from the tiebeam.
Local climate
Woolpit Institute (Part) 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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