Oak House Part of Doctors Surgery the Old Gift Shop is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1954. Shop, house, doctors' surgery.
Oak House Part of Doctors Surgery the Old Gift Shop
- WRENN ID
- riven-cinder-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1954
- Type
- Shop, house, doctors' surgery
- Address
- Oak House Part of Doctors Surgery the Old Gift Shop, 5, Market Place, Mildenhall High
- OS grid reference
- TL 710 746
- Coordinates
- 52.34351, 0.51014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, known as Oak House and part of the Doctors' Surgery, along with The Old Gift Shop, dates back to the early 16th century and has undergone some alterations in the 19th century. It is two storeys high and features three windows. The structure is timber-framed, showcasing exposed arch-braced close-studding on the left side. A small section of the original jettied upper floor remains unaltered, featuring a bressumer adorned with trailing leaf carving on the ends of the joists, which are supported by brackets and pilasters with crenellated capitals and carved shafts. One of the shafts displays trailing leaf carving, while the other may feature bay-leaf carving.
At the left end of the building, there is a 16th-century parapet gable made of red brick, which is mostly painted. This gable includes moulded brick corbelling at the first floor and eaves, and it is topped with crow-stepping and a later diagonally-set square chimney at the apex. The front wall on the right has been rebuilt in 19th-century painted brickwork. The roof is plaintiled and retains a rare set of six ridge tiles, each crested with figures of animals and humans from the 16th century. There are gabled 19th-century dormers and a splayed bay shop window for The Old Gift Shop. Additionally, there is a 19th-century six-panelled door with an oblong fanlight for No. 6. The interior features good un-moulded timber-framing that is exposed.
Local climate
Oak House Part of Doctors Surgery the Old Gift Shop sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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