Old Chimneys is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. House.
Old Chimneys
- WRENN ID
- carved-quoin-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Chimneys, the Street, Market Weston
- OS grid reference
- TL 984 776
- Coordinates
- 52.36112, 0.91295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Chimneys is a house dating from the early 17th century and later. It has two storeys and an L-shaped form, following a basic two-cell end-chimney plan for the main range. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a plain tiled roof that features a wide eaves overhang.
At the junction of the front and rear ranges, there is a large internal chimney stack with four ornate shafts made of moulded white brick from the early 19th century, each with a different design. At the north end of the main range, there is a single round chimney shaft, also of moulded white brick, dating to the early 19th century.
The main range has three-light ovolo-moulded mullion-and-transom windows on both storeys, along with a similar two-light window situated above the central doorway. The entrance features a plank door and an enclosed 20th-century gabled porch with a half-glazed door. The rear wing has three-light ovolo-moulded mullion-and-transom windows on the ground storey, while the upper storey has windows of a similar form but with 18th-century mouldings, complete with pintle hinges.
Local climate
Old Chimneys 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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