School Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. Farmhouse.
School Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- turning-gateway-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- School Farmhouse, Flixton Road, St. Cross, South Elmham
- OS grid reference
- TM 296 847
- Coordinates
- 52.4121, 1.37484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, built in two closely-dated phases. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a timber-framed structure that is mainly rendered, with colour-washed brick on the ground floor to the north-east and a brick lean-to at one end. The roof is covered with black glazed pantiles. The layout is in a three-cell form, and there is an internal chimney stack with a plain rebuilt red brick shaft. To the right of the stack, the roof level is slightly lower. The farmhouse has various 20th-century three-light casement windows and a cross window in the attic. The main beam is exposed only on the ground floor, showcasing a 3-inch chamfer and stepped stops. To the left of the stack, there is a slightly later section with a cross-entry that is still in use, featuring one main beam with a 2-inch chamfer and stepped stops, while the remaining timbers are covered. The house is oriented sideways to the road.
Local climate
School Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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