Great Common Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. Farmhouse.
Great Common Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- outer-nave-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Great Common Farmhouse, St. Andrew, Ilketshall
- OS grid reference
- TM 377 866
- Coordinates
- 52.42653, 1.4954
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Common Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with later alterations and additions. It has two storeys in the main range and one and a half storeys in the rear extension. The main range is timber-framed and rendered, featuring an original red brick gable end with a chimney stack on the north side, and a later red brick gable and chimney stack on the south side. The mid-19th century extension at the back is constructed of red brick, and the roofs are covered with pantiles.
The front of the farmhouse includes three early 19th century casement windows and a central six-panelled door that is topped with a triangular pediment, a broken entablature, and large shaped supporting brackets. The original layout was that of a two-cell end-chimney house. Inside, only some large chamfered main beams are visible, as most of the interior has been altered in the Victorian period, although the timber frame appears to be intact. At the time of the survey, only the 19th century extension was fully occupied, while the rest of the building was becoming derelict.
Local climate
Great Common 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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