Tea Rooms, Formerly Stables and Coach House, 70 Metres North of Helmingham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Tea rooms.

Tea Rooms, Formerly Stables and Coach House, 70 Metres North of Helmingham Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Type
Tea rooms
OS grid reference
TM 186 577
Coordinates
52.17478, 1.19694
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tea rooms, which were formerly stables and a coach house, were built around 1800 for Helmingham Hall. The structure is made of red brick, originally colourwashed, and features a continuous band of gault brick at mid-height. It has a hipped slated roof with widely spaced paired modillions beneath deep eaves, and small 19th and 20th-century chimneys made of red brick. The building includes flat-roofed casement dormers from the 19th and 20th centuries.

The central range consists of three bays with slightly set-forward wings of two bays each. Each bay has a round arch made of gauged brick, with the spandrel filled by small-paned glazing. Below a string course of gault brick, there are mid-20th-century small-paned casements. The centre bay and one other feature original doors with multiple flush panels. The end elevations have triple arcades designed similarly, with the east end having each arch filled by a pair of original panelled coach-house doors that have radiating flush panels in the tympanum.

Local climate

Tea Rooms, Formerly Stables and Coach House, 70 Metres North of Helmingham Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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