Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Abbey Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solitary-truss-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Abbey Farmhouse, Culpho, IP6 9DH
- OS grid reference
- TM 207 492
- Coordinates
- 52.09784, 1.22091
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It has a two-cell lobby-entrance plan and stands two storeys high. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a plaintiled roof and featuring a plastered central chimney. There are various 19th and 20th-century casement windows, and a lean-to extension from the 19th century at the front, which includes a boarded entrance door. Inside, the typical and complete unmoulded 17th-century timber-framing is exposed. The farmhouse has a massive central chimney and a parallel service range added to the rear in the 18th century, which has an extended slated roof. The surrounding moat is likely from the 13th or 14th century, suggesting that this site may have been the Grange held by the Abbey of Leiston at Culpho.
Local climate
Abbey Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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