The Robert Peel Guest House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Guest house.
The Robert Peel Guest House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-banister-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Guest house
- Address
- The Robert Peel Guest House, High Street, Ixworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 931 703
- Coordinates
- 52.29695, 0.83097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Robert Peel Guest House is a former police station built in 1878, which included a courtroom, cells, and living accommodation for a sergeant and constable. It is now used as a guest house. The building is two storeys high and constructed in red and white brick, which has been rendered, showcasing a Victorian Tudor style. The roof is covered with fishscale slates. A central projecting porch extends over two storeys. The building features gable-end chimney stacks, each with two square shafts set at a diamond angle. The windows are designed with mullions and transoms, adorned with hood moulds and ornate casement metal frames. A 20th-century door has been added. The original plans for the building, which are undated, can be found among modern materials in the Suffolk Record Office in Ipswich, reference number 3313/19.
Local climate
The Robert Peel Guest 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 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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