The Coach House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Coach house.
The Coach House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-plaster-swallow
- 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
- Coach house
- Address
- The Coach House, Great Finborough
- OS grid reference
- TM 015 579
- Coordinates
- 52.18309, 0.94673
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Coach House is a terrace of three dwellings built in the mid-18th century, originally serving as stabling and a coach house for Finborough Hall. It was converted around 1980. The building is constructed of red brick and features a modillioned course at the eaves. At the right end, there is a stuccoed Flemish gable, which may be a 19th-century alteration. The left gable has an original brick parapet with an internal end chimney. The roof is slated and includes twelve segmental-headed casement dormers, most of which are felted, although three retain their original lead cladding.
At the center of the ridge, there is a notable original timber-framed and boarded clock tower with a rusticated base. Each side of the tower features a panel with a circle, and a clock is attached to the south side. The octagonal bell turret has arcaded alternate faces, a leaded pyramid roof, and a weather-vane. On the south side, slightly right of center, is a carriage entrance with an arched head made of gauged brick.
The facade features a series of arches: seven to the left and four to the right of the entrance. One arch has a pointed shape, while the others have round arches of gauged brick, linked by a band of raised brickwork at the springing level. Most of the arches are infilled with 20th-century casements and boarded doors; the left bay may have always been used for domestic purposes, as it has an early 19th-century small-pane sash. Attached to the left is an original slated lean-to, which has a similar arch containing an original small-pane casement.
Local climate
The Coach House 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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