Blue Barn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. House, farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Blue Barn Farmhouse

WRENN ID
rooted-basalt-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 August 1988
Type
House, farmhouse
Address
Blue Barn Farmhouse, (Off) Woodbridge Road (East Side), Bredfield, IP13 6AQ
OS grid reference
TM 267 522
Coordinates
52.12197, 1.31141
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blue Barn Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century. It is timber framed with brick and rendered, colour-washed facing, and has a pantile roof. The building has two storeys and a single storey with an attic, featuring a T-shaped plan.

On the entrance front, there is a projecting gabled wing on the right, which has a 19th-century brick facing. This wing includes a ground floor 2-light casement window with a flat head, situated within a blocked doorway, and a single-light casement window to the left. The first floor has two 2-light casement windows, and the gable above features a diamond pattern with the date 1868 in light headers. To the left, in the re-entrant angle, there is a 20th-century porch with a lean-to roof and a 6-panel door. The recessed wing to the left contains two 20th-century 2-light windows, and at the far left is a 20th-century glazed door. The attic has two gabled half-dormer windows, each with 2 casement lights. On the right side, there are two 2-light windows on the first floor, with the ground floor window on the right dating from the 20th century, while the others are from the 19th century.

At the rear, the projecting gabled wing on the left features a 3-light ground floor window from the 20th century and two 2-light casement windows on the first floor. There is an outshut in the re-entrant angle with two 2-light ground floor casements and a half-glazed door on the far right, next to a 2-light casement window. The first floor on the left includes a raking half-dormer window with 2 lights. The roof has a chimney stack at the centre and another on the left.

Inside, the ground floor has chamfered ceiling beams and rafters.

Local climate

Blue Barn Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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