Beech Hill House and Attached Flanking Walls and Steps is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House.

Beech Hill House and Attached Flanking Walls and Steps

WRENN ID
unlit-frieze-fern
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
Beech Hill House and Attached Flanking Walls and Steps, Hospital Road, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 845 637
Coordinates
52.24124, 0.7011
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Beech Hill House, along with its attached flanking walls and steps, dates from around 1850 and has some alterations from the mid-20th century. The house is constructed of yellow brick with ashlar dressings and features hipped slate roofs with two truncated ridge stacks. It has a plinth, angle pilasters, and wooden eaves, and is designed in a square plan over two storeys with a three-window range. The windows are mainly plain sashes.

The slightly projecting central bay is accessed by four stone steps that are flanked by urns, leading to an Ionic portico and entablature that covers a panelled door and overlight. Above this, there is a mid-20th century glazed door set within a 19th-century eared architrave, and a mid-20th century balcony railing. Each side of the house features a two-storey canted bay window with three lights. The left return has two additional canted bay windows, also two storeys high with three lights each.

The curved flanking walls are approximately 5 meters long and topped with slab coping. Each wall has a central gateway with panelled square piers and larger end piers.

Inside, there is a wooden stair with double turned balusters and a scrolled handrail. The ground floor front room on the right includes two elliptical arched cupboards set in recesses, each with glazed doors.

Local climate

Beech Hill House and Attached Flanking Walls and Steps 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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