The Beeches is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. House.

The Beeches

WRENN ID
proud-sandstone-starling
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
The Beeches, High Street, Ixworth
OS grid reference
TL 932 705
Coordinates
52.29909, 0.83317
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Beeches is a house located on the west side of High Street in Ixworth. It dates from the early 19th century but has a core that originates from the 17th century. The building is now three storeys high, having originally been two. It features a rendered brick exterior, with the outlines of Dutch gables visible at both the north and south ends. The roof is a two-span slate design.

The façade includes three windows, which are tripartite sashes set in deep reveals, with segmental arches above the ground and first floors. The entrance features a six-panel field door with a rectangular fanlight above it. The door is flanked by damaged wooden half-round Roman Doric columns, and there is a broken entablature topped with a segmental pediment.

Local climate

The Beeches 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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