The Poplars is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 2000. House.
The Poplars
- WRENN ID
- secret-step-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 2000
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Poplars, Combs
- OS grid reference
- TM 045 551
- Coordinates
- 52.1568, 0.98822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Poplars is a house dating from the late 17th century. It is timber-framed and rendered, featuring a thatched roof with a brick ridge stack. The building has a three-unit lobby-entry plan, with the lobby located at the present rear. It is a single storey with an attic and has a two-window range of 20th-century casements, along with a plank door to the left. The left end includes a small lean-to with a two-light window and a pantile roof, with a similar window above. The right end has a small attic casement. At the rear, there is a plank door and three 20th-century casements.
Inside, the house displays tall panel framing and chamfered bridging beams. A former open fireplace retains a 19th-century range, with the hood visible in the attic above. There is a winder stair leading to the attic, which features wide floorboards and a side purlin roof supported by collars and heavy rafters. Plank doors are found throughout the house. The Poplars is a little-altered example of its period.
Local climate
The Poplars 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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