Grove Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Grove Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- burning-railing-smoke
- 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, Swan Lane, Cretingham, IP13 7BA
- OS grid reference
- TM 232 609
- Coordinates
- 52.20115, 1.2649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with a later addition from the late 17th or early 18th century. It is timber framed with colourwashed infill and has a roof made of black and orange pantiles. The building is two storeys high and has an L-shaped plan.
The entrance front features a later projecting wing on the left, which includes a 20th-century French window on the gable end and a 2-light 20th-century window. The right side of this wing has a 2-light casement window on the left and a 3-light casement window on the right at ground level, with a 3-light casement window above on the first floor. There is a lean-to porch with a pantile roof located in the re-entrant angle between this wing and the earlier section.
Towards the centre of the axial range is a gabled porch that has a central half-glazed doorway flanked by lateral lights. On either side of the porch are 3-light 19th-century casement windows. The first floor features two 3-light casements and two 2-light casements. A single-flue stack is positioned at the ridge near the centre, with another stack on the left side of the projecting wing.
On the right gable end, there is a cross window on the ground floor and a 2-light window on the first floor, accompanied by a slightly recessed outshut that features a 2-light cambered-headed window. The left side has the gable end of the axial range, which includes two 3-light casements on the ground floor, one 3-light casement on the first floor, and a 3-light casement in the attic. The projecting later wing on the right has a stable door on the ground floor, with a single-light window to its left and a 2-light and a single-light window to its right. There is also a flat-roofed dormer window on the first floor with two lights on the left and one on the right.
At the rear, there is a single-storey lean-to with a catslide pantile roof, which has a plank door on the right, a cross window to the left of the door, and a 2-light 20th-century casement window further to the right. The walling to the right of this lean-to has two 3-light casements.
Local climate
Grove 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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