Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.

Abbey Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1966
Type
House
Address
Abbey Farmhouse, Butley, IP12 3NP
OS grid reference
TM 374 491
Coordinates
52.0894, 1.46536
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Abbey Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 18th century, built from rubble stone sourced from the original Butley Abbey, with ashlar quoins and dressings. It features a plain tile roof and was originally designed in an 'L' shape, with 20th-century additions. The house has an east-west range and north-south wings, standing two storeys tall with an attic.

The east elevation displays a gable end with four windows, which are sashes set in recessed frames with glazing bars, topped by brick segmental arches. The north-south wing contains two first-floor windows, also sashes in recessed frames with glazing bars. On the ground floor, there is a modern canted bay made of red brick with sashes. The entrance features a modern doorway with pilasters and a moulded hood supported by decorated brackets, leading to a six-panel raised and fielded door.

The south elevation has three windows, again sashes in recessed frames with brick segmental arches. There is a modern full-height casement double door with glazing bars and a radial fanlight above, set within a semi-circular brick arch. The roof includes two gabled dormers and one modern central dormer, while gault brick stacks are present.

Local climate

Abbey 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 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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