Ennals Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. Farmhouse.

Ennals Farmhouse

WRENN ID
quiet-cobalt-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1958
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Ennals Farmhouse, Hitcham
OS grid reference
TL 983 533
Coordinates
52.14238, 0.89692
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ennals Farmhouse is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 16th to 17th century, featuring a cross wing at the south end and a tiled roof. It stands two storeys high, with the upper storey jettied at the front. The upper storey has a three-window range of double-hung sashes with glazing bars, while other windows include some casements. There is one gabled dormer on the front and a ridge chimney stack with four grouped square shafts that are joined at the top. The porch displays the date 1655 inscribed on the lintel.

Local climate

Ennals 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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