Sicklesmere House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. House.
Sicklesmere House
- WRENN ID
- fading-timber-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sicklesmere House, Little Whelnetham Road, Great Whelnetham
- OS grid reference
- TL 878 605
- Coordinates
- 52.21073, 0.74788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sicklesmere House, formerly known as the Rectory, is a house built in the late 18th century in the Gothick style. It features two windows and is two storeys high with attics. The front wall is made of gault brick, while the other walls are timber-framed and rough-case rendered. The roof is hipped and covered with plain tiles, with rear chimneys made of red brick. The windows have Gothick heads made of gauged brick; the ground floor windows are ogee-arched and have small pane sashes flanked by fixed lights, with curved glazing bars in the spandrel above. The first-floor windows are segmental-headed with small-pane sashes, and the upper lights have arched glazing bars. The entrance door has four panels with glazed upper sections, an ogee-arched head of gauged brick, and a fanlight with curved glazing bars. There are small one-storey extensions from the mid-19th century at either end, each with hipped slated roofs. At the rear, there is an original staircase wing that leads up to the attic level. This building served as the rectory for Little Welnetham Church from 1832 until the early 20th century.
Local climate
Sicklesmere 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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