Brickwall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1982. House.
Brickwall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sheer-marble-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brickwall Farmhouse, Boulge Road, Burgh
- OS grid reference
- TM 233 519
- Coordinates
- 52.12091, 1.26111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brickwall Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with 20th-century alterations. It is timber framed with a colourwashed render on a brick plinth and has a plain pantile roof. The building has a three-cell baffle-entry plan and is two storeys tall with an attic.
On the entrance front, there is a plank door located to the left of centre, flanked by three-light 20th-century casement windows. To the right of the door, there are two three-light windows featuring ovolo-moulded mullions from the late 16th or early 17th century. Further to the right, there is a 20th-century stable door with a glazed upper portion. The first floor has four three-light 20th-century casement windows, also with ovolo-moulded mullions. An axial stack rises to the ridge at the right of centre.
The right gable end has a 20th-century seven-light window at ground floor level and a nine-light casement window on the first floor, with a single light in the attic. The rear of the house features lower walling up to the level of the offset made of rendered breeze-block. There is a stable door to the left of centre, with a three-light and a two-light casement window to the left. To the right, there is a 20th-century plate glass window with five lights that extends down to the plinth level, followed by two two-light and one three-light window. The first floor has four three-light casements in the centre and right, and on the left, there are a four-light and a two-light window, both with ovolo-moulded oak mullions. Extending to the right and set back is a clapboarded service wing from the 20th century, which was formerly used as stables.
Inside, the farmhouse features close-studded walling on the ground and first floors, with chamfered ceiling beams and joists, as well as jowled wall posts. A winder staircase connects the ground and first floors, now leading to the attic.
Local climate
Brickwall 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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