Four Sisters Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Four Sisters Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gilded-thatch-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Four Sisters Farmhouse, B1070, Holton St. Mary, CO7 6PE
- OS grid reference
- TM 066 364
- Coordinates
- 51.98829, 1.00777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Four Sisters Farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings, dates largely to the late 16th century, with 20th-century renovations and extensions added in a matching style to the left. The farmhouse is timber-framed and rendered, with a plain tile roof and red brick stacks. It originally comprised a 3½-bay frame. The front garden elevation features a 20th-century extension on the left, which is of no particular interest. A later square porch, originally forming a lobby-entry, has been blocked, and the current entrance is at the rear. The ground floor has casement and French windows, while the upper floor has casement windows. Diamond-set ridge stacks are positioned on the left and right. A gabled staircase wing and a lower gabled wing are located at the rear, connected by a single-storey range, with a 20th-century entrance to the staircase wing. The interior retains some exposed framing, including chamfered jowled posts and studded walls. There is a relined inglenook with a timber bressummer, and a further blocked inglenook. A corner cupboard from the 18th century features a pilastered and keyed round arch, fielded panelling to the lower doors. The roof is a clasped purlin roof.
Local climate
Four Sisters Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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