Town Close is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. House, cottage. 1 related planning application.
Town Close
- WRENN ID
- crooked-brick-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Town Close, 2, Church Street, Stradbroke, IP21 5HS
- OS grid reference
- TM 231 738
- Coordinates
- 52.31773, 1.27246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Close is originally one house, now comprising two cottages, dating from the 16th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, which has been plastered, and has a thatched roof. The building is two storeys high with an attic. It has a two-cell plan and two windows, which are 18th-century casements. A further window was added to the left side in the mid-20th century. There are two boarded doors. An internal stack is present. The interior has not been fully examined.
Local climate
Town Close sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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