The Blooms is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
The Blooms
- WRENN ID
- turning-wall-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Blooms, Stow Road, Ixworth, IP31 2HZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 932 702
- Coordinates
- 52.29612, 0.833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blooms is a house dating to the late 15th century, with extensions from the 17th century and a raised roof in the late 18th century. It is five bays wide and has a lobby entrance plan. The house is timber-framed and has a roughcast exterior, with approximately 1980s Roman tiles on the roof. The ground floor has mid-20th century casement windows, while the upper floor has 19th-century casements. A 20th-century door sits within an open timber porch. Some original timber framing remains visible, along with one smoke-blackened roof truss inside.
Local climate
The Blooms 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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