The Old Manse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Manse
- WRENN ID
- fading-chancel-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Manse, the Street, Laxfield, IP13 8DZ
- OS grid reference
- TM 293 723
- Coordinates
- 52.3014, 1.36232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Manse is a house, likely dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. A rear range was added in 1865. The house is timber-framed, with the ground floor now colourwashed brick and the remainder roughcast-rendered. The roof is plain-tiled to the front and pantiled to the rear, with ridge tiles. It is a two-storey, three-cell building with a lobby entrance plan. There are three windows, which are casements without glazing bars, mainly dating from the 18th to 19th centuries. Two doorways have 19th-century four-panel doors and timber trellis porches. An internal stack and a gable stack to the left have been Victorianised. The original timbers are concealed inside. A 19th-century staircase is located in the rear addition. The Manse, an adjacent property, is not included in this listing.
Local climate
The Old Manse 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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