Mothersoles is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. House.
Mothersoles
- WRENN ID
- quiet-panel-river
- 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
- Mothersoles, Low Street, Bardwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 941 728
- Coordinates
- 52.31985, 0.84665
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mothersoles is an early 16th-century building with an L-shaped plan and two storeys. It features a timber-framed structure, primarily with exposed timbering, and has pantiled roofs. The cross-wing is jettied and includes a single-storey plastered extension on the north side, along with a small timbered extension that forms a porch on the south side. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack in the main range with a large square shaft, which has sunk panels on each face decorated with blue headers. At the south end of the main range, there is an early 17th-century two-bay extension that is plastered externally. The building mainly has mid-20th-century casement windows with square leading and an early 20th-century entrance door. Inside, there is notable timbering and the remains of a plank-and-muntin screen.
Local climate
Mothersoles 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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