Priory Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. A C16 Farmhouse.
Priory Farm House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-rotunda-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Priory Farm House, West Hall Road, Rickinghall Inferior
- OS grid reference
- TM 036 716
- Coordinates
- 52.30527, 0.98524
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priory Farm House is a farmhouse built in 1579 for individuals identified by the initials GB and TMY, which are inscribed on the storey posts. The house was extended in the 17th century and underwent alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a thatched roof. The layout consists of five bays arranged in a three-cell cross entry plan, with additional kitchen and dairy bays added in a series on the service end to the right. The building is one storey with an attic.
The original entrance, located in the cross entry position, is now roughly central and consists of a recessed 19th-century four-panel door with a cornice. The windows include three-light glazing bar casements with hoodboards, two 20th-century two-light casements to the parlour on the left, and three two-light gabled dormers. There is a rendered axial ridge stack to the left of centre between the hall and parlour, a three-light attic casement on the left end, and two and three-light casements with pentice boards on the right end. At the rear, there is a 20th-century addition behind the parlour featuring three-light casements, a boarded door with a slate hood leading into the added kitchen bay, and a rendered external kitchen stack with a tiled gable-headed brick oven, along with a slate-roofed lean-to brick oven on the original service bay.
Inside, the large two-bay parlour showcases storey posts marked with 'TMY 1579' along with a crescent moon, star, and sheep shears on the front, and 'GB 1579' with an inverted heart on the rear. The jowled sections have roll moulds below, and there are stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams and joists. The hall features a stop-chamfered axial binding beam and two service doorways, while the roof has arched windbraces in a single side purlin design. The 17th-century bays include through tension bracing.
Local climate
Priory Farm House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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