The Limes is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. A Late C16/Early C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
The Limes
- WRENN ID
- inner-obsidian-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Limes, Saxtead, IP13 9QH
- OS grid reference
- TM 254 644
- Coordinates
- 52.23232, 1.30018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Limes is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, featuring a 19th-century Gothick facade and a mid-20th-century extension at the rear. The building has an L-shaped plan and is constructed with a timber frame and roughcast render, topped with a roof made of modern plain tiles. It stands two storeys high with an attic and follows a three-cell plan. The facade includes four windows, each with two or three tall vertical lights that have pointed glazing bars in the upper panes, and timber hood moulds above them. The entrance is a lobby with a colourwashed brick gabled porch that has bargeboards and a spike finial, leading to a modern boarded and battened door. Internally, there is a stack with three 19th-century square flues arranged diamondwise with oversailing caps, along with a small external stack on the left-hand gable.
Local climate
The Limes sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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