Leiston House Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1951. A Early Modern Farmhouse.
Leiston House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tangled-ashlar-owl
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Leiston House Farmhouse, Saxmundham Road
- OS grid reference
- TM 428 629
- Coordinates
- 52.21104, 1.55298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leiston House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with a timber frame core that was completely encased in brick during the 18th century. It features a plaintile roof and stands two stories high. The facade has three windows arranged in a range, with three-light casements and flat arches. The doorway is asymmetrical and includes a six-panel door, an architrave, fluted Roman Doric pilasters, a frieze with triglyphs, and a cornice. The three central spaces between the triglyphs contain roundels, with the central roundel displaying a coat of arms. The building has a modillion cornice and a half-hipped roof. A fine ridge chimney is present, featuring a square base, a moulded brick plinth, and grouped hexagonal stacks. Inside, there is a fully panelled room from the Queen Anne period and a notable 17th-century oak staircase with turned balusters.
Local climate
Leiston House Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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