Stanwell House and Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. House.
Stanwell House and Rose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- distant-rafter-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Stanwell House and Rose Cottage, High Street, Gislingham
- OS grid reference
- TM 074 711
- Coordinates
- 52.29946, 1.04125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stanwell House and Rose Cottage is a house that has been converted into two dwellings. It likely dates from the early to mid 16th century, with a floor and stack added, and was reroofed and extended in the 17th century. The building has been cased, altered, and extended in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with some sections cased in Fletton brick, and has a steeply pitched pantiled roof. Originally, it was probably four bays, consisting of a small open hall with storeyed end bays, and a parlour bay added to the left.
The house is two storeys high and has a broad front with four windows. The right half is brick cased and includes a half-glazed door in the original cross passage position, along with 20th-century three-light casements. The left half is plastered and features a central 20th-century gabled porch leading into the original solar bay, with 20th-century casements and restored four-light diamond mullioned windows on the first floor of the added parlour bay.
Inside, there is an inserted internal ridge stack with a rebuilt cap in the upper bay of the original hall, which is now roughly central, and an inserted internal left end stack. At the rear right, there is a pantiled lean-to with a truncated stack, and at the rear left, a full-height 20th-century gabled wing. The interior frame is largely concealed and partially altered where exposed, featuring two, three, and four-light diamond mullioned window openings. In the upper bay of the hall, there is a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, arched braces to cambered, chamfered tie beams, and a first-floor broach stopped axial binding beam. The roof has been renewed with collars, side purlins, and a crown post mortice in the former open truss tie beam.
Local climate
Stanwell House and Rose Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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