Crabbs Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Crabbs Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stark-rood-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Crabbs Farmhouse, Parham, IP13 9AD
- OS grid reference
- TM 318 605
- Coordinates
- 52.19416, 1.39145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crabbs Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a core dating from the 16th century and later additions. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, with a colourwashed brick gable end to the north and a pantiled roof. The building has two storeys, with the oldest part located at the center, which includes a two-window range with casement windows and a cross passage entry that has a boarded door. To the north is a wing, likely from the 17th century, which has one sash window in a flush frame and a five-panel door, with the upper panel being glazed, along with an internal stack. To the south, there is a brick lean-to extension that is set forward and has a small stack at the gable end.
Local climate
Crabbs Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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