Southgate House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. House.

Southgate House

WRENN ID
other-eave-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 August 1952
Type
House
Address
Southgate House, 1, Sicklesmere Road, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 862 632
Coordinates
52.23548, 0.7262
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Southgate House is a house that has been divided into flats, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, with a possible earlier core. It is constructed of red brick, featuring blue headers on the east and west gables at the ground and first storeys. The roof is a tiled half-hipped mansard style with a modillion eaves cornice.

The building has two storeys, attics, and a cellar, with a five-window range that includes small-paned sashes in flush cased frames. There are three flat-headed dormers, each with small-paned sash windows. The central entrance features a six-panel door with a rectangular fanlight that has geometric glazing-bars, framed by a doorcase with a moulded architrave and a cornice hood supported by moulded console brackets.

At the rear, there is a two-storey 19th-century block in red brick, which has a raised band between the storeys and a plaintiled roof, featuring segmental-arched large-paned sash windows. In the south-west corner of the rear, there is a small two-storey section made of flint and red brick with a steeply-pitched roof that integrates with the main roof. This section contains an early 18th-century 18-pane sash window and appears to be the oldest part of the house.

Inside, the ground storey windows have panelled internal shutters. A restored early 19th-century staircase rises the full height of the house, featuring stick balusters and a ramped and wreathed handrail.

Local climate

Southgate 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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