Keens Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. Farmhouse.
Keens Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- weathered-gallery-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Keens Farmhouse, Coakers Lane, Debach
- OS grid reference
- TM 249 542
- Coordinates
- 52.14079, 1.2857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keens Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th or 17th century. It features a timber frame with colourwashed render and a brick skin, topped by a plain tile roof that was likely originally thatched. The building has two storeys and an attic, arranged in three cells.
On the entrance front, the ground floor is constructed with reused 16th or 17th century bricks sourced from Low Farm in Debach. The first floor displays rendered timber framing. There is a gabled porch located to the left of centre on the ground floor, which has a 2-light casement window in the gable end and a door to its right. To the right of the porch are two 3-light casement windows, while the first floor features three 3-light windows and a single-light window above the porch. A large 2-flue chimney stack is positioned to the left of centre over the porch.
On the right gable end, there is a chimney stack with offsets at the centre. The first floor has a 2-light window with a cambered head, along with two 2-light attic windows. The left gable end includes a gabled single-storey extension on the ground floor. At the rear, there is a 20th-century gabled porch on the right, accompanied by a 2-light 20th-century window and a 3-light 17th-century window with ovolo-moulded mullions to the left. Further left is a projecting gabled wing with a 2-light casement on the first floor, and a flat-roofed 20th-century addition projects from the left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Keens 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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