Low Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Low Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- silver-cobalt-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Low Farmhouse, Cockfield Hall Lane, Witnesham, IP6 9JB
- OS grid reference
- TM 174 498
- Coordinates
- 52.10427, 1.17438
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates back to the 16th century. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with some later sections built in painted brick. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has internal and end chimneys made of red brick. There are various 19th and 20th-century casement windows.
The farmhouse includes a two-storey timber-framed gabled entrance porch from around 1600, which features an early 19th-century four-centred arched doorway with a reeded architrave. The inner entrance door has six panels, with the lower panels being fielded and the upper pair glazed. At the rear of the hall/parlour chimney, there is a gabled stair tower, also dating from around 1600, and the flanking rear outshuts were likely added in the 19th century.
Local climate
Low 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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