Beehive Peacocks and Melcott is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1961. House.
Beehive Peacocks and Melcott
- WRENN ID
- former-crypt-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beehive Peacocks and Melcott, High Street, Cavendish
- OS grid reference
- TL 808 465
- Coordinates
- 52.08758, 0.63868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beehive, Peacocks and Melcott is a timber-framed and plastered house dating from the 15th to 16th century. It features cross wings at both the east and west ends, each of which is two storeys high with jettied and gabled upper storeys. The central section is one storey with attics. The building has mainly casement windows, along with some double-hung sashes. The roof is tiled and includes two gabled dormers.
Local climate
Beehive Peacocks and Melcott 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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