Swallow's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. Farmhouse.
Swallow's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- late-banister-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Swallow's Farmhouse, Chelsworth Road, Lindsey
- OS grid reference
- TL 982 460
- Coordinates
- 52.07699, 0.89186
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swallow's Farmhouse is a 16th to 17th century timber-framed and plastered building that has been refaced at the front with 19th century gault brick and altered. It features a cross wing at the south end and an addition at the north end with a gable on the front. The roof is tiled and the building is part two storeys and part one storey with attics. There is a four-window range of double-hung sashes with single vertical glazing bars. A gabled porch with a tiled roof projects from the front. The farmhouse formerly displayed a panel with the initials J G M and the date 1695. It has two ridge chimney stacks, one with sawtooth shafting and the other with three square shafts set diagonally, which has been rebuilt. Additionally, there are two gabled dormers.
Local climate
Swallow's 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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