Little Causeway Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1990. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Little Causeway Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- peeling-truss-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1990
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Little Causeway Farmhouse, B115, Hitcham, IP7 7NE
- OS grid reference
- TL 987 518
- Coordinates
- 52.12934, 0.90234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Causeway Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the 15th century and was remodeled in the 17th century. The building was divided into two dwellings and extended to the right in the mid-18th century. It features a render over a timber frame and brick construction, with a gabled roof covered in plain old tiles and pantiles at the rear. There are brick ridge stacks that were finished in 19th-century brick.
The original layout is an open-hall plan from the 15th century, consisting of a two-bay hall on the left and a probable floored chamber in the bays to the right, which was incorporated into the mid-18th-century extension, creating a two-unit house with a central lobby entrance. The farmhouse is one storey with an attic and has a three-window range. There is a blocked door to the lobby entrance on the right, a mid-20th-century lean-to porch at an angle, and a mid-20th-century garage extension to the left. The windows include mid-20th-century two and three-light casements, as well as two gabled dormers, with similar casements and dormers at the rear.
Inside, the 15th-century structure features a three-bay roof with smoke-blackened rafters. The former open-hall is to the left of the two bays, with chamfered wall posts, arch braces, and tie beams supporting a crown-post truss that has four-way bracing to the collar and collar purlin. There is a smoke-blackened partition from the 15th century that divides the hall from the bay to the right, which likely served as a storeyed chamber end. The hall was remodeled in the 17th century with the addition of a chimney stack and first floor, featuring a chamfered bressumer over an open fireplace, along with stop-chamfered beams and joists in the room to the right. The room to the left contains reset late 15th-century moulded joists and an arched doorway. The bay at the right end of the 15th-century house has mid-18th-century softwood beams and joists in the ground floor room.
Local climate
Little Causeway 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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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