Star Orchard is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. House.
Star Orchard
- WRENN ID
- graven-vestry-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Star Orchard, Saxham Street, Stowupland
- OS grid reference
- TM 087 615
- Coordinates
- 52.21269, 1.05464
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Star Orchard is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It has one storey and attics, featuring a two-cell plan. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with the front elevation displaying false mid-20th century half-timbering. The roof is thatched, and there is an axial chimney made of buff narrow bricks from the early 17th century or late 16th century. The windows are 20th-century casements with leaded glazing. There is a flat-roofed one-storey mid-20th century extension on the left and another on the right, which includes a recessed entrance porch. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
Star Orchard 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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