Home Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Home Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- former-doorway-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Home Farmhouse, Mitford Road, Benhall, IP17 1JA
- OS grid reference
- TM 374 614
- Coordinates
- 52.20012, 1.47287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Home Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with an L-shaped layout. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a brick gable end to the west wing, and has a roof of modern plaintiles. The house has two storeys. Windows are casements, with 2-light and 3-light openings, many featuring square leaded panes. The south wing includes a 6-panel door, the upper two panels glazed. There is one internal stack in the south wing and one gable end stack in the west wing.
Local climate
Home Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 1 transaction since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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