Ancient House Oak House is a Grade II* listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. A C15 House.
Ancient House Oak House
- WRENN ID
- gilded-landing-wind
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ancient House Oak House, 33b, Eastgate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 859 645
- Coordinates
- 52.24788, 0.72303
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ancient House (No. 33A) and Oak House (No. 33B) are two houses that were originally built in the 15th century and later refaced in the 18th century. They are located on a corner site and feature a half-H shape with a central range and two gabled, jettied cross-wings. The timber-framed structure has some exposed timbering but is mainly rendered, with plaintiles on the roof.
The eastern wing is jettied on two sides, supported by a moulded bressumer with five brackets that have moulded capitals and shafts, and a corner-post that bears a damaged figure of an angel. The upper storey of the north-east end has a small section with close studding exposed. Each gable has pierced and fluted 19th-century bargeboards topped with spike finials. The centre wall has been raised above the original wallplate level.
The houses are two storeys high with attics. The front features irregularly spaced 12-pane sash windows: three in the upper storey and five in the ground storey on the Eastgate Street side, and three in the upper storey on Barn Lane, all in flush cased frames. The Ancient House has a four-panel door with a moulded architrave and a flat cornice hood on shaped brackets. Oak House has a panelled door on the Barn Lane side, flanked by two narrow windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Ancient House Oak House 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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