Hunters is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Farmhouse.
Hunters
- WRENN ID
- rough-sill-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hunters, Thelnetham Road, Hopton
- OS grid reference
- TL 994 790
- Coordinates
- 52.37277, 0.92883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hunters is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring a two-cell lobby-entrance plan and three bays. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, with simple comb-pargetting in panels, and has a thatched roof. An internal chimney stack has a plain red brick shaft. The house includes various three-light casement windows, some from the 20th century, and an early 19th-century two-light window above the door, which has a transom and pointed Gothic heads to the lights. The central door is six-panelled with sunk panels, and it has a late 20th-century replaced surround in Georgian style with a triangular pediment.
Inside, the building showcases exposed timbering with widely spaced studs. The main ceiling beams have ovolo mouldings and stops; to the east of the stack, the joists are set flat, while to the west, they are set on edge. There are large open fireplaces, one to the east with a wide shallow red brick arch and another to the west with an ovolo-moulded lintel. The original attic floor features windows in the gable ends, and the roof is structured in five bays with clasped purlins and windbraces connecting the principal rafters to the purlins. At the rear, there is a 19th-century single-storey brick lean-to with a pantiled roof. On the west side of the house, a two-storey addition built in 1947 replaced an older timber-framed section and is not included in the listing.
Local climate
Hunters 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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