Allens Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Allens Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gilded-flagstone-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Allens Farmhouse, Sudbury Road, Bures St. Mary, CO8 5JT
- OS grid reference
- TL 900 362
- Coordinates
- 51.9926, 0.76721
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Allens Farmhouse is a timber-framed and plastered house renovated in the 20th century. It may have originally been a hall house, with a floor inserted sometime between the 16th and 17th centuries. The house is two storeys high and has small casement windows. The front door is boarded. The thatched roof is half-hipped at the south-east end and features a central square chimney stack. The interior retains exposed timber framing.
Local climate
Allens Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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