Honington House and Boundary Walls Adjoining to North and East is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Rectory.

Honington House and Boundary Walls Adjoining to North and East

WRENN ID
forbidden-brick-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1983
Type
Rectory
OS grid reference
TL 912 745
Coordinates
52.33611, 0.80497
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Honington House is a former rectory dating from the 18th century. It is a two-storey building constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with black glazed pantiled roofs that are fully hipped, featuring wide eaves overhang and a mutule cornice. There is an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft. The front of the house has a two-storey rounded bay and a range of sash windows in flush frames, with all but one having had their glazing bars removed.

At the north-east corner, behind the main front range, there is a two-storey block with a fully hipped roof that appears to be a separate building connected to the main house. This block has small-paned sash windows in flush frames. Inside, the upper rooms feature coved plaster ceilings, and there is a stair wing at the rear that contains an early 19th-century geometrical staircase. One of the ground-floor rooms is octagonal and also has a coved ceiling.

Adjoining the north-east corner of the house is a long stretch of high rubble flint wall with rounded copings and red brick piers. At its western end, this wall forms one side of a range of single-storey outbuildings with clay pantiled roofs that extend from the rear of the house. At the north-east end of the wall, there is a Gothic-style doorway with a pointed head and red brick jambs. The return wall along the east side serves as the boundary between the garden and the school yard and features a similar blocked doorway.

Local climate

Honington House and Boundary Walls Adjoining to North and East 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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