Corner Thatch Heathfield Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A C16 House.

Corner Thatch Heathfield Lodge

WRENN ID
last-span-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1955
Type
House
Address
Corner Thatch Heathfield Lodge, Mill Road, Honington
OS grid reference
TL 913 745
Coordinates
52.33541, 0.80778
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Corner Thatch and Heathfield Lodge is a house that was originally divided into three units but is now two. It dates back to the early 16th century, with a later 17th-century wing added to the east and a south extension from around 1900. The building features two storeys in some areas and one and a half storeys in others. It has a timber-framed structure that is plastered and lined, with thatched roofs on the older sections and red brick with double Roman tiles on the 1900 extension.

The main range runs north-south and includes an internal chimney stack with three attached hexagonal shafts, arranged in a three-cell plan with a lobby entrance. The windows are small-paned casements. Inside, the timber framing is exposed, although the roof is not accessible. The principal ground-floor room, which spans one and a half bays, suggests the possibility of an older core to the house. The main cross-beams are intricately carved with unusual cresting decoration, and an applied cornice of similar design encircles the room. One section of the cornice features a more formalized design of vine leaves and grapes. There are two open fireplaces with timber lintels.

The small east-west crosswing has been extensively restored and features light framing, mid-20th-century casement windows, and doors. The south extension has an end chimney stack, a single-storey rectangular bay window with a tripartite slate roof, three sash windows with a single vertical bar in the upper storey, and a four-panel door with a plain rectangular fanlight.

Local climate

Corner Thatch Heathfield Lodge 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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