Garden House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. House.
Garden House
- WRENN ID
- lesser-barrel-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Garden House, High Street, Hopton
- OS grid reference
- TL 995 793
- Coordinates
- 52.37568, 0.93
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden House is a house dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It features a part one-and-a-half storeys and part single-storey design, with a two-cell lobby-entrance plan and a later extension. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof that is hipped over the single-storey extension on the north side and gabled on the south side.
The ground storey has two small casement windows with external plank shutters, and there is one two-light casement window above. The entrance features a slightly recessed plank door. Inside, the building has a plain frame with five bays that are fully exposed. It includes single-height studs bisected by primary braces, joists set on edge, and no tie-beams to the intermediate trusses. The roof is substantial, comprising five bays that are ceiled-off at collar level, with principal rafters set on edge, one row of slightly-stepped butt purlins, and common rafters set flat.
Local climate
Garden House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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