Browns Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1989. Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.
Browns Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- keen-sandstone-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Browns Farmhouse, High Street, Holbrook, IP9 2PX
- OS grid reference
- TM 163 369
- Coordinates
- 51.98903, 1.14948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brown's Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with later alterations and additions. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, with some painted brick, and has a red plain tiled roof. The building has two red brick chimneystacks and is two storeys high, presenting a six-window range. The two right bays are later extensions, and there are 20th-century casements and a 20th-century gabled porch on the right side. Inside, the original frame includes jowled storey posts and arched braces to the tie-beam near the chimneystack. There is a back-to-back inglenook fireplace, and some restoration has been carried out on the ground floor ceilings.
Local climate
Browns 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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