7 and 8, Stow Road is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Council houses.
7 and 8, Stow Road
- WRENN ID
- scarred-sentry-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Council houses
- Address
- 7 and 8, Stow Road, Ixworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 934 701
- Coordinates
- 52.29573, 0.83529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 7 and 8 on Stow Road are a pair of council houses designed in 1892 and built between 1893 and 1894 by Mr. Whitmore, the Suffolk County Surveyor, for Thingoe Rural District Council. They are constructed of red brick with slate roofs featuring ridge crests and a central shared chimney stack.
These two-story semi-detached houses have rear single-story back kitchen/wash houses and lavatories. The windows are timber casements set under arched brick heads, and the doors are timber with toplights above. There is a single sill band at the first floor level. The interiors have not been inspected.
This pair is one of four pairs of houses believed to be the first rural council housing built in England under the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890. This act allowed local authorities to acquire and develop land for housing, although it was adopted by only eight rural authorities, despite the recognition that agricultural laborers faced housing conditions as poor as those in inner cities. The houses remain in little-altered condition.
Local climate
7 and 8, Stow Road 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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