Tuns Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Tuns Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- final-loft-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Tuns Farmhouse, Howe Lane, Cockfield, IP30 0HA
- OS grid reference
- TL 911 549
- Coordinates
- 52.1599, 0.79253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tuns Farmhouse is a 16th-century building constructed with a timber frame and plaster, topped with a thatched roof that is hipped at both the east and west ends. It features a ridge chimney stack and has been renovated. The farmhouse stands two storeys tall and has modern casement windows. There are lean-to additions at both the east and west ends. Inside, the property showcases some heavy exposed ceiling beams.
Local climate
Tuns Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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