Dark Lane House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Dark Lane House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-trefoil-vermeil
- 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
- Dark Lane House, Easton, IP13 0ER
- OS grid reference
- TM 279 600
- Coordinates
- 52.19134, 1.33433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dark Lane House is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a pantiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring a four-window range with mullion and transom casements. There is a lobby entrance that includes a 19th-century four-panel door, and to the right side, there is a mid-20th-century six-panel door. Inside, there is an internal stack with four clustered hexagonal flues. The gables are adorned with ornamental bargeboards. Additionally, there is a 19th-century brick wing on the left side of the house.
Local climate
Dark Lane House 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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