Moor Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Moor Farmhouse

WRENN ID
rooted-turret-jet
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Moor Farmhouse, Middleton Moor, IP17 3LN
OS grid reference
TM 417 677
Coordinates
52.25509, 1.54037
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Moor Farmhouse is a timber-framed farmhouse dating to the early 16th century. A brick south gable was added in the mid-16th century when part of the house was raised, and a rear extension was added in the mid-20th century. The house is timber framed and plastered, with red brick gable ends, brick casing to the ground floor of the facade, and a modern concrete pantile roof. It has two storeys and an attic. The front has a three-window range with mid-20th century casement windows with square leaded panes. A mid-20th century lean-to porch provides access to a boarded door, and there are two gabled dormers to the rear.

The south gable is particularly notable, being crowstepped with square finials above the corbelled eaves. It contains a pair of windows at ground and first floor levels, the first-floor windows being blocked. Above each window is a short moulded brick band, and over each band is a unique raised brick ornament consisting of an upright oblong with three-quarter circles above and below, repeated three times above each window, with slight alterations on the first floor. A central recessed blank panel sits at attic level. A large stack features three detached octagonal flues, with moulded bases, the caps of which are missing.

A first-floor bedroom to the south contains a good brick fireplace with a four-centred arch, above which is a fine plaster overmantel decorated with foliated and floral motifs and Tudor roses in the spandrels. This room also has ovolo-moulded ceiling joists.

Local climate

Moor Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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