Walnut Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1985. A C17 Farmhouse.

Walnut Tree Farmhouse

WRENN ID
young-alcove-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Walnut Tree Farmhouse, Halesworth Road, Chediston
OS grid reference
TM 341 774
Coordinates
52.34543, 1.43644
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-17th century, with a 19th-century service range to the left. It was extended and modernised around 1937. The building is timber framed and encased in red brick, except for the front facade which is plastered. It has a pantiled roof with glazed black tiles at the front. The farmhouse is two storeys high with an attic and has a two-cell layout with a lobby entry.

The windows are mid-20th century three-light metal casements, and there is a mid-20th century gabled entrance porch with a room above it, featuring a six-panel door with the upper two panels glazed. Inside, there is a central internal stack, and the main beams have barred stop-chamfers. The interior also includes some notable arched brick fireplaces and an exposed roof structure with clasped and butt purlins and arched wind-bracing. The red brick service range has three windows with casements set under segmental arches.

Local climate

Walnut Tree Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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