Wood Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1983. Farmhouse.

Wood Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sharp-window-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 August 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Wood Farmhouse, Westward Ho, Leiston
OS grid reference
TM 436 630
Coordinates
52.2117, 1.56566
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wood Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. It has a lobby entrance plan and stands two stories tall. The building features a four-window range, with modern casements that include glazing bars. The ground floor windows at the extreme left and right are mid-20th century insertions. There is a central doorway with a modern door set in a solid frame, and a central stack is present on the roof.

Local climate

Wood 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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