Riverside Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Farmhouse.

Riverside Farmhouse

WRENN ID
standing-stone-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Riverside Farmhouse, Kettle Lane, Creeting St. Mary
OS grid reference
TM 104 543
Coordinates
52.14748, 1.07479
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Riverside Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was originally built as a mill-house, likely in 1798, as indicated by a plaster date in a cartouche on the rear gable. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with two original end walls made of flint rubble featuring red brick quoins. The gables are plastered, and the roof is covered with plain tiles, supported by axial and gable chimneys made of red brick. The building has two storeys and three windows, featuring original three-light casements with undersquare upper lights above transoms. The entrance doorway is original, consisting of a six-panelled door with the top pair of panels glazed, framed by an eared architrave and a moulded pediment. A rear service wing, which also dates to 1798, includes an original stick baluster stair and a three-centred arch over access to the rear wing. Inside the rear wing, primary-braced studding is exposed on the round floor, with some components being reused. The Bosmere watermill was located close to or attached to the house until the early 20th century.

Local climate

Riverside Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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