Outbuilding 15 Metres North of Hill Top Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. Outbuilding.
Outbuilding 15 Metres North of Hill Top Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- iron-eave-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1986
- Type
- Outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- TM 100 505
- Coordinates
- 52.11367, 1.06674
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This outbuilding, located 15 metres north of Hill Top Farmhouse, is possibly a detached dairy dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and is weatherboarded, topped with a thatched clasped-purlin roof. The building features boarded doors and arch-braced close-studwork. It consists of three bays, with the western bay previously separated by a closed truss, of which only the tie-beam remains. The main room includes a central arch-braced open truss.
Local climate
Outbuilding 15 Metres North of Hill Top 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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