Oakwood is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.

Oakwood

WRENN ID
dim-stronghold-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1972
Type
House
Address
Oakwood, 18, Combs Lane, Stowmarket, IP14 2DA
OS grid reference
TM 049 577
Coordinates
52.17962, 0.99599
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oakwood is a building that was originally three houses, which were converted into one in 1980. It dates from the mid-18th century and features a timber frame set on a brick plinth, with a plastered and colourwashed exterior. The roof is covered with pantiles and the building has two storeys with a three-window front. There is a late 20th-century brick porch to the right of the centre, topped with a sloping plain tiled roof. The windows include two late 20th-century leaded casements on either side and three on the first floor. The roof is gabled and there are two chimney stacks on the rear slope, although there were originally three. Inside, the building has close studded timber framing with arched braces at the corners, and features two brick fireplaces, down from the original three.

Local climate

Oakwood 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 90% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 transaction since 2022
  • 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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