Western House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. House.
Western House
- WRENN ID
- tall-cobalt-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Western House, High Street, Cavendish
- OS grid reference
- TL 808 464
- Coordinates
- 52.0873, 0.63814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Western House is an 18th century timber-framed and plastered house. It has two storeys and features a three-window range on the north front, with two windows on the first storey, and a three-window range on the west front. The windows are double-hung sashes without glazing bars, adorned with architraves and modillion cornices. The doorway, located on the west front, is accessed through a gabled porch. The roof is hipped and covered with tiles.
Local climate
Western 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings