Model Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1985. Farmhouse.
Model Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- roaming-portal-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Model Farmhouse, Cratfield Road, Linstead Magna
- OS grid reference
- TM 307 778
- Coordinates
- 52.34992, 1.38641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Model Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 17th century, which was re-roofed in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and has a hipped roof covered in glazed black pantiles. The building has two storeys and was originally designed with an attic. It has a three-cell layout with a lobby entrance. The windows are mainly 19th century casements, but there are two original mullioned windows on the first floor and two others that can be seen inside. The entrance door is made of planks, and there is a heavy internal stack. At the rear, there is a full-width outshut made of colourwashed brick, which includes a mid-20th century gabled addition at the first floor level. Inside, the first floor showcases a good exposed frame, original floorboarding, and some original doors, along with newel stairs.
Local climate
Model Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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