Venns Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Venns Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sharp-gutter-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Venns Farmhouse, Cockfield Hall Lane, Witnesham, IP6 9JB
- OS grid reference
- TM 174 495
- Coordinates
- 52.10154, 1.173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Venns Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with a 3-cell plan. It is timber-framed and rendered with a pantiled roof. The roof has internal and end chimneys made of red brick. Windows are mainly 19th and 20th-century casements, some with small panes of glass. The entrance is a 4-panelled door, also dating to the 20th century. Some original 17th-century timber framing is visible inside the building.
Local climate
Venns Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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