Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Abbey Farmhouse

WRENN ID
cold-moat-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Abbey Farmhouse, Yoxford Road, Sibton, IP17 2LZ
OS grid reference
TM 363 694
Coordinates
52.27274, 1.46338
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Abbey Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with an east wing that features bricks marked "CW 1842" and "C. White 1842", likely indicating the date of its construction. The building has an L-shaped plan and is timber framed with plaster, with a small section that is roughcast rendered. It has a plaintiled roof and stands two storeys high with an attic. The facade includes five 19th-century casement windows and a four-panel door on the left side. There is an internal stack, and at the rear, a Dutch gable made of red brick features some stone and flint decoration, with pairs of oval windows at the first floor and attic levels. The gable also has a lozenge panel within the pediment and an integral stack, while additional oval windows at ground floor level are obscured by two 19th-century lean-to additions. A 19th-century wing made of red brick has a slated roof and three windows facing east, with all first floor windows and one ground floor window being dummies. Some internal joinery, including the staircase and doors, retains 19th-century woodgrain effect paintwork.

Local climate

Abbey Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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