Cuckoo Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Cuckoo Farmhouse

WRENN ID
over-gutter-summer
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
Cuckoo Farmhouse, St James' Road, St. James, South Elmham, IP19 0HH
OS grid reference
TM 324 814
Coordinates
52.38177, 1.41402
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cuckoo Farmhouse is a late 16th-century farmhouse featuring a three-cell lobby-entrance layout. The building stands two storeys high and is constructed with timber framing and rendering, topped with black glazed pantiles. It has an internal chimney stack with a plain rebuilt red brick shaft. There are three windows on each floor, which are old three-light casements with transoms and pintle hinges. The farmhouse includes a 19th-century red brick porch that is enclosed and gabled, featuring fluted barge-boards and a four-panel door, with the top two panels being glazed. Additionally, there is a 19th-century red brick wing at the rear. Access to the interior has not been obtained.

Local climate

Cuckoo 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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