Spencer's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Spencer's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- silent-render-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Spencer's Farmhouse, Polstead, CO6 5BD
- OS grid reference
- TL 996 402
- Coordinates
- 52.02464, 0.90917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spencer's Farmhouse is an 18th-century red brick building featuring a tiled roof and end chimney stacks, standing two storeys high. It has a three-window arrangement of double-hung sashes with glazing bars, set in flush cased frames. The outer window ranges consist of three lights with narrow side lights. A central modern gabled porch projects from the front of the building.
Local climate
Spencer's Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 1 application
- 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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