The Dell is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1984. House.
The Dell
- WRENN ID
- silver-copper-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dell, Elms Road, Freckenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 667 719
- Coordinates
- 52.32023, 0.44556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dell is a house located on Elms Road in Freckenham, dating from the early 19th century but with an earlier core that may be from the 17th or 18th century. It has two storeys and three windows. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, featuring plaintiled roofs with end and rear chimneys made of red and gault brick. The windows are small-pane casements from the 19th century, adorned with broad moulded and shouldered architraves. The ground floor includes French windows that share similar detailing. There is a pair of 19th-century panelled entrance doors, with the upper panels being glazed and flanked by Doric pilasters. Additionally, there is a timber-framed porch from the 19th century in the Picturesque style, which has glazed arched side panels and a swept gabled plaintiled roof with fretted and lobed bargeboards topped with a spike finial.
Local climate
The Dell sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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