Providence House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.

Providence House

WRENN ID
tired-terrace-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 October 1987
Type
House
Address
Providence House, Church Street, Fressingfield, IP21 5PA
OS grid reference
TM 261 774
Coordinates
52.34835, 1.31904
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Providence House is an early 19th-century house, possibly with an earlier core, located on a corner site with an L-shaped plan. It is timber framed and features plasterwork that imitates ashlar. The roof is covered with black pantiles and is hipped at the corner. The house has two storeys and three windows facing Church Street, consisting of two bays with small-paned sash windows in flush frames. The right bay has mid-20th century large-paned aluminium windows in the original openings. The central doorway has a four-panel entrance door, with the upper panels glazed, flanked by reeded pilasters and topped with an entablature. The return front has three bays, with three of the original sash windows replaced by mid-20th century windows. There is another doorway featuring a four-panel bolection-moulded door, reeded pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice. An internal stack is present in each range. The house is included for its group value.

Local climate

Providence House 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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