Dial Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Farmhouse.

Dial Farmhouse

WRENN ID
twelfth-passage-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 November 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Dial Farmhouse, Dial Lane, Earl Soham
OS grid reference
TM 252 634
Coordinates
52.22276, 1.29689
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dial Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a main range dating from the 16th century and a cross wing added in the 17th century, featuring a late 19th-century facade. The building has an L-shaped plan and is timber framed, with a red brick facade and the remainder plastered. The roof is covered with modern concrete pantiles. The farmhouse is two storeys tall, with an attic in the cross wing. The older part has three windows, primarily 20th-century large pane casements with segmental arches. There is a lobby entrance that includes a two-storey brick porch with a crowstepped gable and a four-centre arched boarded and battened door, along with an internal stack. The cross wing is slightly set forward and features a crowstepped gable and a gable end stack at the rear. Inside, there is exposed timbering, mainly on the first floor, along with some original doors and original attic stairs. The ground floor includes one moulded beam, and the main range has a queen post roof. An adjacent outbuilding, which also has crowstepping, is dated 1899.

Local climate

Dial Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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