Portland House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. House.
Portland House
- WRENN ID
- tall-moulding-root
- 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
- Portland House, 74, Guildhall Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 852 639
- Coordinates
- 52.24287, 0.712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Portland House is a house, now divided into flats, dating from the early to mid 18th century. It has a timber frame with a front made of red brick and a plain tiled roof featuring a wood modillion eaves cornice. The building is two storeys high, with attics and a cellar. The façade has five windows arranged in a 2:1:2 pattern, with the central section slightly projecting. All windows are 12-pane sashes set in flush cased frames with flat gauged arches. There is a raised brick band between the storeys and another band just below the cornice. Three hipped dormers contain small-paned casement windows. The central entrance features a recessed six-panel door framed by a Gibbs surround with rusticated architraves, a cornice, and a pediment. The interior has not been inspected but is reported to have been completely modernised, with all historic features concealed or removed.
Local climate
Portland 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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