The Timbers is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. House.
The Timbers
- WRENN ID
- small-terrace-azure
- 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 Timbers, Banyard's Green, Laxfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 301 729
- Coordinates
- 52.30663, 1.37385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Timbers is a house dating from around 1500, with a small later wing added to the right. It features a timber frame and is plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The building has one and a half storeys, with mid-20th century casement windows on the ground floor and 18th to 19th century casements in two eyebrow dormers on the upper floor. There is a 20th century boarded door and an internal stack with a rebuilt shaft. The later addition is also timber framed, faced in colourwashed brick, and has a roof made of glazed black pantiles, with a gable stack. Originally, it was an open hall house, likely consisting of three cells. The interior has been modernised, but some exposed framing with reversed braces remains. In the hall, there is 17th century panelling that has been brought from another location, featuring fluted Ionic pilasters and the inscription 'Verbvm Domini Manet In Eternvm'.
Local climate
The Timbers 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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