Sparrows Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1990. House. 6 related planning applications.
Sparrows Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- burning-gateway-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sparrows Farmhouse, Priory Lane, Shelley, IP7 5RQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 008 382
- Coordinates
- 52.00646, 0.92439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sparrows Farmhouse is a house that has two sections, originating from the 16th century with later additions and alterations. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring red plain tiled roofs at two levels, with the lower roof on the left side. There is a single red brick chimney stack on the left addition, and additional stacks on the left and rear of the right range. The house has a window arrangement of 2:4, consisting of various small paned vertically sliding sashes, including a long window to the right of the left range. The entrance features a panelled door with a moulded surround and a flat canopy. Inside, there is an inserted ceiling in the right range, an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered mantel beam, a herringbone brick floor, and two 18th-century corner cupboards.
Local climate
Sparrows Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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