Gothic House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. Residential.

Gothic House

WRENN ID
tattered-cinder-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1974
Type
Residential
Address
Gothic House, Church Street, Clare
OS grid reference
TL 770 454
Coordinates
52.07952, 0.58165
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gothic House is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered building that was refaced in the early 19th century with white brick. The front features a parapet and cornice, and early 19th-century wings now enclose the original 17th-century structure. The building has two storeys and a three-window range on the front, with three-light casements that have "Gothic" pointed arched tracery in stucco architraves. There is a six-panel door set in plain reveals, topped with a flat hood on console brackets. An early 19th-century timber-framed and plastered wing extends to the south, featuring casement windows, while a white brick wing faces east, which includes French windows and a doorway with a semi-circular fanlight. The roof of the main block is tiled and hipped, while the other blocks have slate roofs. Gothic House is part of a group of listed buildings on Church Street, which includes the Parish Church of SS Peter & Paul and other listed buildings on Market Hill.

Local climate

Gothic 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 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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