Fairfield House East, Fairfield House South, Brook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Mansion. 3 related planning applications.
Fairfield House East, Fairfield House South, Brook Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- eternal-garret-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Mansion
- Address
- Fairfield House East, Fairfield House South, Brook Farmhouse, Fairfield Drive, Saxmundham, IP17 1AX
- OS grid reference
- TM 384 634
- Coordinates
- 52.21799, 1.48899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building comprises a mansion, now divided into three separate dwellings. It was constructed in 1828 and subsequently subdivided around 1973. The building is constructed of red brick with hipped slate roofs and several brick stacks.
The entrance front has two storeys and three bays. A full-height, pedimented porch projects from the centre, featuring paired pilasters on each floor; the inner pilaster on the upper floor is fluted. The porch contains a half-glazed door and a 6/6 horned sash window on the first floor. Flanking bays have one sash window on each floor, set within stuccoed architraves, with various combinations of glazing bars. To the left of the entrance front is a two-storey wing with five bays. This wing has a central doorway and 6/6 horned sash windows to the ground floor, with 3/6 horned sashes to the first floor; all windows have hoods.
The right return of the building has two storeys and three bays, with the centre bay gabled and projecting. The ground floor of the projecting bay has a bay window, and above is a tripartite sash window. A bay to the right has a conservatory with a hipped roof on the ground floor; otherwise, the flanking bays have one horned 6/6 sash window to each floor.
The interior features a cantilevered staircase with stick balusters, which have rounded corners. There is an apsed upper landing beneath a circular lantern.
Local climate
Fairfield House East, Fairfield House South, Brook Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 23 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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