Kings Fene is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Kings Fene

WRENN ID
seventh-mortar-evening
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
Kings Fene, Stone Street, St. Lawrence, Ilketshall, NR34 8LB
OS grid reference
TM 378 831
Coordinates
52.39502, 1.49486
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kings Fene is a farmhouse dating to the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It has a roughly L-shaped layout and originally comprised timber framing, though much of the exterior has been rendered with brick facing. The roof is covered in black glazed pantiles, and a brick gable end on the east features a high, corbelled coping and a chimney stack. An internal stack with a plain red brick shaft is also present in the main range.

Most of the windows are 20th-century replacements, including four 3-light casements to the upper floor, two 3-light and one 4-light mullion-and-transom windows on the ground floor, all set in shallow reveals. The rear wing, also with 20th-century ovolo-moulded 3-light casement windows, appears to have been shortened and is now arranged in three bays. A 20th-century porch sits in the angle between the two wings.

Internally, some original timber framing remains. The main range appears to be comprised of two sections built close together. A ground floor room on the west has a chamfered main beam and joists, an open fireplace with a plain timber lintel, and main posts with long jowls. A section of the rear wall has been removed, and a lean-to addition now contains a straight flight of stairs. In the rear wing, trusses feature cambered tie-beams and long arched braces have been removed. Roof access is not possible. The house stands on a moated site.

Local climate

Kings Fene 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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