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

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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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