Guildhall Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Guildhall Cottages
- WRENN ID
- old-zinc-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Guildhall Cottages, Earl Stonham, IP14 5EE
- OS grid reference
- TM 107 587
- Coordinates
- 52.18693, 1.08205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Guildhall Cottages are a pair of cottages dating from around 1700. They are timber-framed and plastered, featuring a concrete-tiled roof that was originally plain-tiled, along with axial chimneys made of red brick. The cottages are two storeys high and mainly have 19th-century small-pane casements. The entrance doors are boarded and from the 19th century, with 20th-century open porches supported by posts. There are 18th or 19th-century slated lean-to outshuts at the side and rear. The timber framing is notable for its date, exhibiting primary-braced close-studding and on-edge floor joists. Many of the building components have been reused and re-cut from a 16th-century, or possibly 15th-century, structure that previously occupied this site, which featured heavy framing. According to White's Directory from 1855, this earlier building was referred to as the guildhall, which was settled in 1476 for the benefit of the parishioners and is now the schoolhouse.
Local climate
Guildhall Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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