Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Farmhouse.

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tenth-brass-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 January 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Church Farmhouse, Leet Hill, Dunwich
OS grid reference
TM 474 705
Coordinates
52.27732, 1.62673
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1882, as indicated by two datestones on the front gables. It is constructed of red brick with a roof made of black pantiles and stands two storeys tall. The facade is symmetrical, featuring two gables that face forward with a short link between them. There is a three-window range consisting of two-light and three-light casements, which have heavy mullions and transoms, along with metal glazing bars arranged in a geometric pattern and flat brick arches above.

A single-storey gabled porch with a plain tiled roof has a recessed entrance beneath a three-centre arch, leading to a four-panel door. The main gables and the porch are adorned with richly ornamented scalloped bargeboarding, complete with spike finials above and below the apex. The building has two stacks, each with three grouped flues topped with oversailing brick caps. At the rear, there is a single-storey former dairy wing. This farmhouse is included as a fine example of the local architectural style of the Barne estate.

Local climate

Church Farmhouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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