Plumbers Arms is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1961. House.
Plumbers Arms
- WRENN ID
- guardian-pilaster-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Plumbers Arms, Wickham Street, Wickhambrook
- OS grid reference
- TL 758 541
- Coordinates
- 52.15756, 0.56864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Plumber's Arms is an early 19th-century red brick house located on Wickham Street in Denston. It stands two storeys high with attics and features a three-window range, showcasing double-hung sash windows with glazing bars set in cased frames. The entrance includes a six-panel door with glazed upper panels. The roof is tiled and has a mansard design, complete with three gabled dormers. At the rear, there is a 19th-century wing that has a three-window range on the first storey and four on the ground storey, including one three-light canted bay window. The Plumber's Arms, along with Brooklyn House, Street Farmhouse, Manor Cottage, Crabb House, and Brookhouse Farmhouse, forms a group within the Parish of Wickhampton.
Local climate
Plumbers Arms 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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