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
- blind-render-sepia
- 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
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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