Cox Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. Farmhouse. 11 related planning applications.
Cox Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallow-chimney-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cox Farmhouse, Cox Hill, Boxford
- OS grid reference
- TL 970 411
- Coordinates
- 52.03335, 0.87068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cox Farmhouse is a 16th-century timber-framed and plastered building with a cross wing at the north end. It is two storeys high. The upper storey of the cross wing projects and is supported by exposed joists, displaying exposed timber framing. The windows are a mix of casement and double-hung sash windows, some with glazing bars. The roof is tiled and features a ridge chimney stack with two hexagonal shafts set on square bases.
Local climate
Cox Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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