Shrubbery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. Farmhouse. 10 related planning applications.
Shrubbery Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-fireplace-rye
- 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
- Shrubbery Farmhouse, Ipswich Road, Charsfield, IP13 7PS
- OS grid reference
- TM 261 560
- Coordinates
- 52.15632, 1.30433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shrubbery Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse located on Ipswich Road in Charsfield. It features a timber frame with pebbledashed, colourwashed render and a plain tile roof, which was originally thatched. The building has a three-cell, two-storey plan with an attic.
On the entrance front, there is a 20th-century four-panel door on the right, accompanied by a 20th-century lattice gabled porch. To the left of the entrance, there is another doorway with a glazed panel. Between these two doors, a three-light 19th-century casement window is situated, with a similar window at the far right. To the left of the entrance, there is one three-light casement and a two-light casement. The first floor features four 19th-century three-light casements, and there is a shallow gabled dormer window with two lights in the attic. A three-flue stack is located at the left ridge.
On the right gable end, there is a ground floor sash window with four panes by four panes and a two-light casement window in the attic. The rear of the farmhouse includes a projecting two-storey outshut on the right, which has a chimney stack with two flues and offsets of tumbled brick. To the left of this outshut, there is a single-storey outshut with a lean-to roof and a two-light window. A 20th-century glazed window with six panels is located to the left, next to a window with three panes by two panes. On the first floor at the left, there is a three-light casement, and another stack is positioned below the ridge on the left with two flues.
Inside, the farmhouse features chamfered ceiling beams, close studded walling, and jowled wall posts.
Local climate
Shrubbery Farmhouse 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- 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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