Bridge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1985. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Bridge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- proud-forge-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bridge Farmhouse, Halesworth Road, Chediston
- OS grid reference
- TM 357 776
- Coordinates
- 52.34583, 1.46053
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a core dating back to the 15th century, featuring significant alterations, particularly in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It has an L-shaped plan, with a rear wing added in the 18th or 19th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, with some remnants of panelled plasterwork on the facade. The roof has modern plain tiles at the front and clay pantiles at the rear. The farmhouse stands two storeys high with an attic and has a three-cell layout with a cross-passage entry. There are three windows featuring 18th to 19th century casements, and the doorway includes a six-panel door, with the upper two panels glazed, along with an architrave, frieze, and bracketed hood. It has an internal stack at the front and a gable end stack at the rear.
To the left, there is a single-storey, colourwashed brick addition from the 19th century. Inside, a notable feature is a dais beam carved with double crenellations, beneath which are flower motifs; a small section of another crenellated beam can be seen in the cross-passage. The room to the right of the cross-passage displays exposed framing and joists, along with a large blocked window that has chamfered mullions and five lights. The staircase to the well dates to the early 19th century, and the roof was renewed in the 18th century.
Local climate
Bridge 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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- 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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