Grove Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. Farmhouse.
Grove Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- weathered-flint-laurel
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Grove Farmhouse, Drabs Lane, Clopton
- OS grid reference
- TM 230 545
- Coordinates
- 52.14432, 1.2581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with an addition from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It is timber framed with rendered infill and brick, topped with a roof made of plaintile and pantile. The building has two storeys and an attic.
On the entrance front, there are 20th-century windows. To the right, there is a single bay from the late 18th or early 19th century, which has a lean-to on its right side. The left side features the earlier portion, which has a projecting 20th-century gabled wing positioned left of center. This wing contains a panelled door in the center, a single-light casement to the right, and a 2-light casement on the first floor. To the left of the wing, there are two 2-light windows on both the ground and first floors. To the right, there are three 2-light casements and one 3-light casement on the ground floor, along with two 2-light casements on the first floor. The far right side of the later addition includes a 3-light bow window on the ground floor and a 3-light gabled semi-dormer on the first floor. The right gable end is mostly blank except for a 20th-century chimney stack, while the left gable end has a 3-light window on the ground floor, a 2-light window on the first floor, and a blocked attic window. The lean-to on the left features a 2-light casement on the ground floor.
At the rear, there is a long outshut from the 20th century at ground floor level. On the first floor, to the left, there is a single-light and two 3-light casements, and to the right, a 17th-century 3-light window with an ovolo-moulded surround and mullions. The later addition on the left of this includes a 2-light casement on the ground floor and a 3-light first floor gabled semi-dormer.
Inside, the farmhouse features close studding and chamfered ceiling beams on both the ground and first floors. There is a screens passage with a screen that has moulded muntins, jowled wall posts, and a massive chimney breast with a baffle entry.
Local climate
Grove 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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