Brick Kiln House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. House.
Brick Kiln House
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-hammer-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brick Kiln House, Cockfield Road, Great Whelnetham
- OS grid reference
- TL 895 587
- Coordinates
- 52.19483, 0.77137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brick Kiln House is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the mid 16th century and restored around 1980. It has a three-cell lobby-entrance plan and is two storeys tall with attics. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a pantiled roof that is hipped at the right-hand end and features an axial chimney made of red brick. The house includes casement windows and a gabled entrance porch with a boarded door from around 1980. Inside, there are back-to-back open fireplaces in the hall and parlour, and twin service rooms at the right-hand end that are now joined, each having an arch-headed doorway into the hall. The roof has clasped purlins, and an attic floor was inserted over the parlour chamber in the 17th century, with the former hipped roof converted to a gable for additional headroom. There is evidence throughout the house of diamond-mullioned unglazed windows that originally had sliding shutters.
Local climate
Brick Kiln House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
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