Valley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Valley Farmhouse

WRENN ID
other-pewter-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Valley Farmhouse, Valley Lane, Wherstead, IP9 2AX
OS grid reference
TM 153 393
Coordinates
52.01047, 1.13687
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Valley Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th to 17th century. It was modernised around 1900 and underwent extensive renovation between 1978 and 1980. The building is timber-framed on a plinth and rendered, with brick stacks and a plain tile roof. It features a lobby-entry plan and has a 4 1/2-bay frame, standing two storeys high with an attic. A 20th-century central gabled porch and 20th-century casement windows are present, along with a swept roof and a gabled dormer with a casement window above the porch. The centre ridge stack is complemented by external stacks at the gable ends, which were rebuilt around 1948. There is also a 20th-century addition under a pent roof to the left.

Inside, the frame and roof structure are mostly concealed by plasterboard cladding. The ground floor features a chamfered spine beam that is tenoned into a cross beam, with exposed joists and a restored open studded partition. On the first floor, one jowled chamfered post is exposed along with a chamfered cambered tie beam. The half bay contains a stack, and the left bay is said to have been formerly jettied and contained a separate staircase.

Local climate

Valley Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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