Knights Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1989. House.
Knights Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- watchful-cornice-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Knights Farmhouse, Shotley Road, Harkstead
- OS grid reference
- TM 200 342
- Coordinates
- 51.96334, 1.20135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knight's Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. The building features exposed timber framing on the first floor and red brick casing on the ground floor. It has a red plain tiled roof with a gable on the right side and an off-centre large red brick chimney stack. The house is two storeys tall, with a single-storey red brick extension to the left that has a grey slate roof.
Architectural details include arched braces at the first-floor angles and three casement windows with cross transoms. On the ground floor, there are four small paned vertically sliding sash windows with segmental heads, along with a six-panel door that also has a segmental head. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace featuring a cast-iron grate and hobs, chamfered bridging joists, and flat section ceiling beams. The staircase has a central newel and stick balusters, with an earlier moulded handrail on the lower section.
The original rear wall features a mullion window, and there are jowled storey posts. An arch-braced tie-beam is located by the chimney stack, with one brace cut away. The bedroom has a plastered chamfered segmental arched fireplace surround, and there is a panelled door with original ironmongery.
Local climate
Knights Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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