Ostler's Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. House.
Ostler's Lodge
- WRENN ID
- vast-grate-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ostler's Lodge, High Street, Needham Market, IP6 8AW
- OS grid reference
- TM 088 550
- Coordinates
- 52.15427, 1.05166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ostler's Lodge is a house that was built in the mid or late 16th century as a stable range attached to the rear of the King's Head Inn, now known as Nos. 60 and 62 High Street. The building underwent major alterations around 1980. It is two storeys high and has five bays. The structure is timber-framed, with the framing exposed towards the yard and plastered infill panels. It features a concrete tiled roof and 20th-century casements along with a boarded and battened entrance door. Inside, there is good unmoulded framing, including arch-braced studwork and diamond-mullioned windows, some of which are quite complete but blocked. The building also has a notable queen-post roof, which is unusual for Mid Suffolk, featuring arch-braced cambered tie-beams, square-sectioned queen-posts and collars, with clasped purlins located above the collars. Additionally, the building was extended towards the rear around 1980.
Local climate
Ostler's Lodge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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