Lark House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House.
Lark House
- WRENN ID
- tilted-alcove-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lark House, 21 and 22, Mustow Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 856 643
- Coordinates
- 52.246, 0.71836
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lark House is a house that has been divided into two separate residences, originally built in the 17th century and later fronted in the early to mid-19th century. It underwent extensive restoration in the 1980s. The building is timber-framed and encased in white brick, topped with pantiled roofs.
The exterior features two storeys, a cellar, and attics. No. 21 has two 20-pane sash windows on the first storey with plain reveals and flat stucco arches, along with one similar window on the ground storey. No. 22 has a single ground storey window that matches, but its first storey windows are narrower 15-pane sashes set at a lower level. The brick front of No. 22 rises above the eaves in a high parapet, which includes a 9-pane sash window in the attic. Behind this, the apex of the gable of a small original cross-wing is visible. Both houses feature similar plain doorways with rendered flat arches and ornate late 20th-century doors.
Inside No. 22, there is a small flint-lined vaulted cellar with some 19th-century brickwork introduced. A few timbers are exposed inside, some of which are reused and located in the upper part of a late 17th-century rear wing. No. 21 was not inspected.
Local climate
Lark 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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