Hawthorn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. Farmhouse.

Hawthorn Farmhouse

WRENN ID
waiting-sentry-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hawthorn Farmhouse, Great Common, St. Andrew, Ilketshall
OS grid reference
TM 379 869
Coordinates
52.42835, 1.49794
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hawthorn Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid-16th century. It has two storeys and attics, built on a three-cell plan. The structure is timber-framed and encased in 18th-century red brick, topped with clay pantiles. There is an end chimney stack on the left, set within the gable, and an internal stack, both featuring similar square shafts and plain bands. The windows are 20th-century casements in a traditional style, with two-light and three-light configurations. The farmhouse has an enclosed, gabled red brick porch with a clay pantiled roof.

Inside, the layout consists of five bays with exposed ceiling beams. The ground-floor rooms on either side of the internal stack have plain unchamfered joists set flat and a chamfered main beam with step stops. The upper ceilings are a later addition, with joists set on edge. The roof features two rows of stepped butt purlins, which are trimmed at their junction with the deep, narrow principal rafters. The cambered collars are halved against the principals using barefaced dovetail halvings, and there is a ridge-piece. Overall, the roof appears to be a later addition, likely installed when the upper ceilings were added.

Local climate

Hawthorn Farmhouse 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 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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