Ridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. House. 2 related planning applications.
Ridge House
- WRENN ID
- blind-oriel-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ridge House, the Street, Rickinghall Superior, IP22 1DY
- OS grid reference
- TM 045 756
- Coordinates
- 52.34042, 1.00182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ridge House is a house located in Rickinghall Superior, dating from around 1840. It features a timber frame that is plastered and scored to resemble ashlar, topped by a shallow hipped slate roof. The front of the house has five bays and is designed as a square block with two storeys.
There are steps leading up to a central entrance, which has a part raised, fielded door with six panels and a fret pattern. Above the door is a traceried oblong fanlight, framed by a semi-round architrave. The entrance is sheltered by a reused late 18th century Roman Doric porch, which has fluted columns and a wave-moulded frieze. The windows are flush moulded frame glazing bar sashes, with moulded hoods supported by shaped brackets. The first floor windows are smaller and have margin glazing.
The house has an offset plinth with a cellar window to the left and an eaves cornice. There are two white brick stacks located in the central valley between the outer bays, each with oversailing caps. The right return of the house has French windows and 2 and 3-light casements with hoodboards, and the roof has a double hip design.
On the left return, there is a ground floor architraved casement that replaces an entrance towards the rear. At the rear, the ground floor features a bay window to the right with transomed 3-light glazing bar casements. In the centre and to the right, there is a lean-to outshut with a half-glazed door and a 3-light casement. The first floor has part opening metal frame leaded 3-light casements. Additionally, there is a stable outbuilding at the rear right, which has an open front and is trellissed with turned uprights. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Ridge House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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