St Lukes House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1998. Hall house. 3 related planning applications.

St Lukes House

WRENN ID
ruined-rotunda-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 February 1998
Type
Hall house
Address
St Lukes House, 2, Church Street, Eye, IP23 7BD
OS grid reference
TM 146 738
Coordinates
52.321, 1.14746
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Luke's House consists of two houses that date back to the mid-14th century. Originally a hall house, it was floored in the 17th century, and a stack was inserted in the former screens passage to create a lobby entrance. The building was split into two houses in the 19th century and underwent alterations in the late 20th century. The exterior features roughcast and colourwashed brick over a timber frame, with a roof covered in black-glazed pantiles.

The structure is two storeys high and has a four-window range with a high plinth course. There are two late 20th-century doors accessed by flights of steps, with the door to No. 2 set within a plain 20th-century recess. The windows consist of three-light late 20th-century top-hung casements. The roof is gabled, with a ridge stack positioned to the right of centre and an internal gable-end stack on the east side. The west gable has a blocked doorway in the canted corner, and there are 20th-century casements on each floor. At the rear, there is a two-storey cross wing with a truncated gable-end stack and 20th-century casements.

Inside, the timber frame features heavy scantling with jowled principal posts. The early 17th-century brickwork of the inserted stack includes a wide fireplace in the former hall, located in the ground-floor east room of No. 2. In the southeast corner, there are remains of an arched solar staircase door. The ground-floor west room of No. 2 has mortice holes in the bridging beam for screen muntins and doorways to service rooms, with the beam having been relocated. The roof has two bays with a crown post that is octagonal in section, featuring a moulded base and capital, and open arched braces to the crown purlin and collars.

Local climate

St Lukes House 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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