Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. House. 2 related planning applications.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sunken-crypt-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, Upper Somerton, IP29 4ND
- OS grid reference
- TL 811 531
- Coordinates
- 52.14692, 0.64551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house located in Upper Somerton, built on an L-shaped plan. It is one storey high with attics. The windows are small casements dating to the 20th century, and original 17th-century boarded doors remain. The tiled roof features a central chimney stack with four grouped octagonal shafts restored on a square base. The east gable projects, supported by shaped brackets, and includes a moulded bressummer. The west end of the roof is hipped and incorporates two gabled dormers. The interior retains exposed timber framing.
Local climate
Church 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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