The Briars is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. House.
The Briars
- WRENN ID
- upper-lead-pearl
- 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
- The Briars, Old School Road, Whepstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 828 587
- Coordinates
- 52.19653, 0.67331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Briars is a house dating from the 16th century. It has two storeys and features a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a hipped thatched roof. There are axial and end chimneys made of red brick. The windows are small-pane casements from the 20th century, and there is a 20th-century entrance porch with rendered walls and a gabled plain-tiled roof.
Local climate
The Briars 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
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