Clematis House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. A Mid C16 House.
Clematis House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-foundation-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Clematis House, the Street, Laxfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 294 723
- Coordinates
- 52.30151, 1.36394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clematis House is a house that was built in two phases, starting with a mid-16th century hall and service end. Around 1600, a parlour cell was added to the left of the stack, creating a three-cell, lobby entrance house. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring casement windows, a gabled porch, and an entrance door, all dating from the mid-20th century.
To the right, there is a single-storey former shop addition, likely from the early 20th century. The left gable includes a two-light attic window with some early diamond-leaded glass. Inside, the hall fireplace has a lintel with remnants of embattled carving, and there are chamfered joists in both the hall and parlour. The first floor retains its studding with a blocked diamond-mullioned window and reversed bracing at the service end. In the hall chamber, there is an arch-braced cambered tie beam. The roof over the earlier part features a plain crown-post structure, with the crown post braced only to the collar purlin. The roof over the parlour is mainly of mid-20th century date but was originally constructed with side purlins. The house also has newel stairs.
Local climate
Clematis 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
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