Fen Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1988. Farmhouse.

Fen Farmhouse

WRENN ID
salt-rubble-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 March 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Fen Farmhouse, Hollow Lane, Copdock and Washbrook
OS grid reference
TM 110 420
Coordinates
52.03695, 1.07509
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fen Farmhouse is a farmhouse that consists of two builds from the 16th century and around 1600, which was restored in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is rendered, with a plaintile roof. The building is two storeys tall and follows a two-cell lobby-entry plan, with an extension at the rear. There is a central axial brick stack and a central boarded door. On each floor, to the left and right, there are two-light timber casement windows. A similar casement window is found on the first floor and attic on the left-hand return. The farmhouse has a good quality close-studded frame, although much of the right-hand return's ground floor frame has been replaced. The rear wall has been partly removed at ground level, while the left-hand return's ground floor is made of brick.

The left-hand cell features bar stopped chamfers on the ceiling beams and square joists, along with an exposed brick fireplace that has an original bressumer. The right-hand cell contains two small three-light ovolo moulded mullion windows positioned below ceiling level, square joists (some of which have been replaced), and an exposed brick stack made of English and mixed bonds. This cell also has chamfered arriG and chamfered bressumer first-floor jowled posts, along with an original ceiling that includes a cambered beam. An original window is present at the front, while a blocked four-light diamond mullion window is located at the rear. The left-hand cell has cross beams on the ceiling that are braced against the wall. The right-hand cell features a two-bay butt purlin roof with collars and cranked braces, while the left-hand cell has a two-bay clasped purlin roof, also with cranked braces.

Local climate

Fen 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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