Spring's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Spring's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stark-timber-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Spring's Farmhouse, St. Cross, South Elmham, IP20 0NZ
- OS grid reference
- TM 296 838
- Coordinates
- 52.40408, 1.37397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spring's Farmhouse is a former farmhouse, with origins in the mid-16th century and alterations in the early 18th century. It is two storeys high. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, with a clay pantile roof. A 19th-century red brick gable is visible on the right side. An internal chimney stack, with a plain, rebuilt shaft of Tudor red brick, is set below the ridge. Replacement casement windows are now in place, with transoms on the ground floor. The main entrance is through a small 20th-century extension on the left end.
Inside, to the right of the stack, a 16th-century bay is visible with good studding and reversed braces. The upper floor features a five-light window with plain, chamfered mullions that have been replaced. The roof has clasped purlins. There is an upper fireplace with a square brick surround, chamfered jambs, and plasterwork rusticated to simulate stone. A good studded door with narrow, molded planks is also present. This part of the house was lengthened by approximately half a bay, likely when the 19th-century brick gable was added.
To the left of the stack, the timber framing is later and less substantial, featuring thin joists set on edge, small main beams, and primary braces in the walls. This section appears to be an 18th-century replacement of an earlier structure. A small 18th-century wing extends to the rear of the property.
Local climate
Spring's 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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