Heath Farmhouse and Dairy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1984. Farmhouse.
Heath Farmhouse and Dairy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-hall-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Heath Farmhouse and Dairy Cottage, Heath Road, Wenhaston with Mells Hamlet
- OS grid reference
- TM 418 763
- Coordinates
- 52.33219, 1.54885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Heath Farmhouse and Dairy Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings, dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. It has a T-shaped plan and is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, featuring two gable ends with painted brickwork and a pantiled roof. The north wing has two storeys, while the south wing has two storeys and an attic. Both wings include 19th and 20th-century casement windows. The south wing has a range of four windows, consisting of two-light and three-light casements, along with two doorways, each featuring a boarded door. There is also one dormer under a catslide roof. The north wing has a gable end stack, while the south wing has an internal stack. The ground floor of the north wing is characterized by ovolo moulded beams.
Local climate
Heath Farmhouse and Dairy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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