Estate Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1995. Service building.
Estate Yard
- WRENN ID
- low-flue-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1995
- Type
- Service building
- Address
- Estate Yard, Helmingham
- OS grid reference
- TM 188 571
- Coordinates
- 52.16895, 1.1987
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Estate Yard is a service building dating from around 1840, possibly designed by Anthony Salvin, who was involved with Helmingham Hall around 1841. The structure features weatherboarded and brick construction, with a moulded brick stack on the short arm. It has pantiled roofs on the main sections and facing-gable dormers, which include ornamental vergeboards and slightly swept eaves. The building is two storeys high and is arranged in an L-shape, creating a yard to the southwest. All openings are flat arched. There is an outshut to the north, and a large facing gable with double doors is located in the long arm of the L. A smaller dormer is positioned to the right of the stack on the short arm, and there is an entrance under a gabled canopy porch at the outer corner of the short arm. The design reflects a picturesque style that combines traditional vernacular elements with features from the 'cottage orne' tradition. The Estate Yard is part of a group that includes cottages numbered 3-8 and 15-20, the Old Post Office near the crossroads to the north, and the Old Forge.
Local climate
Estate Yard 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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