Langton House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. House.

Langton House

WRENN ID
woven-rafter-grain
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
Langton House, 22a, 22 and 22b, Hatter Street, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 853 641
Coordinates
52.24421, 0.71403
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Langton House is a house that now contains two shops on the ground floor but was formerly a girls' boarding school. It dates from the early 19th century, although it has an earlier core. The building is timber-framed and faced in white brick, topped with a pantiled roof that features a plain parapet and a brick dentil cornice.

The exterior has two storeys and attics, with a five-window range consisting of 12-pane sashes set in plain reveals, featuring flat gauged arches and projecting stone sills. There are two flat-headed dormers in the roof, which have 20th-century casement windows. The central doorcase has panelled reveals, panelled pilasters, and an open pediment. It includes a 20th-century door with a semicircular fanlight, flanked by two early 20th-century double shop fronts with recessed central entries. At the back, there is a 17th-century two-storey rear wing that has an internal chimney-stack with a blank recessed panel at the base.

Inside, there is little remaining, but there is a 19th-century staircase with turned balusters, a plain handrail, open strings, and applied bracketing.

Local climate

Langton 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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