75 and 76, Ipswich Road is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
75 and 76, Ipswich Road
- WRENN ID
- moated-pinnacle-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 75 and 76, Ipswich Road, Helmingham, IP14 6EE
- OS grid reference
- TM 191 584
- Coordinates
- 52.1804, 1.20414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 75 and 76 on Ipswich Road are a pair of cottages that were originally built as a single three-cell open hall house around 1530 to 1550. The cottages are two storeys high, constructed with a timber frame and roughcast exterior. They feature a pantiled roof with a central 19th-century red brick chimney and an additional chimney at the left gable. The windows are three-light casements dating from around 1900, with those on the first storey adorned with pantiled gablets and serpentine bargeboards. There are three boarded and battened entrance doors from the same period, reflecting the time when the house was divided into three separate dwellings. To the left, there is a 19th-century lean-to extension with a pantiled roof.
Internally, the mid-16th-century framing is exposed, showcasing a typical late form of open hall house. The two-bay hall contains blocked windows with square mullions, and a similar window can be found in one of the chambers. The structure features arch windbraced studding and a nearly complete coupled rafter roof, which is blackened throughout. The original hipped ends have been enclosed within 19th-century gables. There is also evidence of a 17th-century chimney that was inserted into the cross entry on the left but has since been removed.
Local climate
75 and 76, Ipswich Road 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 83% 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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