Wash Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Farmhouse.
Wash Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- slow-hearth-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wash Farmhouse, Bridge Street, Alpheton
- OS grid reference
- TL 876 489
- Coordinates
- 52.10665, 0.73841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wash Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-framed house with a cross wing at the east end. Originally plastered, it is now mostly covered in red brick. The building has two storeys and attics. The south front features a range of three windows, while the east front has two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars in plain reveals, each with square label moulds. A gabled brick porch extends from the south front. The roof is tiled and has stopped gables on the cross wing.
Local climate
Wash Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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