Silver Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. House.
Silver Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- first-rood-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Silver Farmhouse, Lawshall
- OS grid reference
- TL 875 538
- Coordinates
- 52.15066, 0.73978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Silver Farmhouse, formerly known as Paradise Farm, is a 17th century timber-framed and plastered house located in Hibbs Green. It features a cross wing at the east end and has undergone alterations in the 18th century, with renovations in the 20th century. The building has two storeys and attics. The upper storey of the cross wing jetties on brackets on the north front and is weatherboarded. It has casement windows. A glazed porch projects from the front, which includes two 18th century windows with semi-circular heads and small panes. The roof is covered with cedar shingles and has a central chimney stack with grouped diagonal shafts.
Local climate
Silver 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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