Snipe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. A C16 House.
Snipe Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quiet-fireplace-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Snipe Farmhouse, Snipe Farm Road, Clopton
- OS grid reference
- TM 228 539
- Coordinates
- 52.1387, 1.25467
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Snipe Farmhouse is a house that was originally a farmhouse, dating from the 16th century, with additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and has a plain tile roof, which was probably thatched originally. The building has two storeys with an attic.
The entrance front features a projecting 19th-century wing on the right, which has a blank gable end that connects to a 20th-century addition. The left side has 20th-century windows arranged randomly, with rendered walling on the ground floor and brick on the first floor. The axial 16th-century range on the left has close-studded walling on both floors. The ground floor includes a 2-light 19th-century casement window near the centre and a 4-light window with moulded mullions on the far left. There is also a blocked window slightly left of centre. On the first floor, there are two single-light casements and one cross-window. The roof has two skylights and a brick chimney stack on the right, which was rebuilt in the 20th century. Attached to the left is a lean-to porch, and the gable-end walling above it features close studding with reversed braces and brick nogging infill.
On the right side, the gable end of the 16th-century range jetties at the first floor and gable level. The ground floor is rendered and has a sash window with four panes by four panes, while the first floor has close studding with reversed bracing and brick nogging infill, along with a 2-light 20th-century window. The gable also has similar close studding and brick nogging, with a 3-light 20th-century window. Moulded brackets are located below the first floor and gable jetties. The left side features the 19th-century wing with randomly arranged windows.
At the rear, all windows are from the 20th century and are set in rendered walling, including three 3-light and one 2-light casements on the ground floor, and five 2-light casements on the first floor.
Local climate
Snipe Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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