Slough Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. House. 1 related planning application.
Slough Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quiet-eave-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Slough Farmhouse, Slough Lane, Acton, CO10 0BN
- OS grid reference
- TL 899 467
- Coordinates
- 52.08659, 0.77147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Slough Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house located on Slough Lane in Acton. The building features gables at both the east and west ends, with two small wings extending north that have half hipped roofs. It stands two storeys tall, with a front made of plastered brick. The façade has a window arrangement of 1:3:1, consisting of casements with gault brick rustications and square stucco hood moulds. The central boarded door also has brick rustications and a hood mould that connects to those of the adjacent windows. The roof is tiled and includes a central chimney stack with four grouped octagonal shafts set on a square base.
Local climate
Slough 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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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- 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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