Dewells Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Farmhouse.
Dewells Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- south-plaster-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dewells Farmhouse, Ufford Road, Bredfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 271 526
- Coordinates
- 52.12553, 1.31692
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dewells Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. It is timber framed, rendered, and colourwashed, with a pantile roof that was probably originally thatched.
The entrance front features a gabled porch located to the right of centre, which has a plank doorway. Flanking the porch are three-light 19th-century casement windows. On the first floor, there are three 19th-century casements set within the original window openings. At the ridge, there is a stack with three pots. The right gable end has one three-light ground floor window and curved brackets at the eaves level. The left gable end features a 20th-century window with four by three panes, brackets below the eaves, and a gable that slightly projects at its upper body. To the left of this gable is a 20th-century flat-roofed single-storey wing, which has a single-light casement on the right.
At the rear, the 20th-century wing is on the right, to the left of which is a three-light 20th-century casement and, at the far left, a two-light casement. The first floor has two two-light casements on the left and one three-light window on the right.
Inside, the ground and first floor rooms feature close studding and chamfered beams. The first floor has 16th-century window openings that are fitted with 19th-century casements but still show the original mullion sockets.
Local climate
Dewells 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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