Fosters Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. A 16th to 17th century House. 3 related planning applications.
Fosters Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- weathered-kitchen-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Period
- 16th to 17th century
- Address
- Fosters Farmhouse, Hartest, IP29 4ET
- OS grid reference
- TL 840 518
- Coordinates
- 52.13445, 0.68746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fosters Farmhouse is a timber-framed and plastered house dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, renovated in the 20th century. At the east end, the timber framing has been exposed, revealing two original windows with diamond mullions. The house is two storeys high, with a three-window front featuring 20th-century casement windows in original window openings. A 20th-century gabled porch is centrally placed on the front elevation. The roof is tiled, with a gambrel roof at the north-west end and a large central chimney stack with four grouped octagonal shafts. Group value derives from the building's contribution to the historic streetscape.
Local climate
Fosters 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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