The Gorse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
The Gorse
- WRENN ID
- floating-copper-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Gorse, Farnham Road, Blaxhall, IP12 2DU
- OS grid reference
- TM 362 580
- Coordinates
- 52.17003, 1.45317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gorse is a 17th-century farmhouse that has undergone significant alterations in the 20th century. It features a four-bay timber frame with plastered walls and a 20th-century extension that creates an L-shaped plan. The building is one storey high with an attic and has a plain tiled roof. The windows are a mix of 20th-century casements, with some original mullions reused, and there is a plank entrance door.
Local climate
The Gorse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- 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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