Broad Oak Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1999. Farmhouse.
Broad Oak Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- standing-rafter-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1999
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Broad Oak Farmhouse, Station Road, Wetheringsett-Cum-Brockford
- OS grid reference
- TM 132 650
- Coordinates
- 52.2423, 1.12147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Broad Oak Farmhouse is a mid-17th century farmhouse constructed with a rendered and roughcast timber frame, featuring a corrugated iron roof that has replaced the original thatch. The building has a lobby-entrance plan and is two storeys high, with an east front that includes a two-window range. There is a late 19th-century gabled porch located to the right of the centre. On the ground floor, there is one three-over-three unhorned sash window to the left and one two-light casement window to the right. The first floor has two two-light casement windows. A ridge stack is positioned over the doorway.
The rear elevation features one two-light casement window on both the ground and first floors, along with an additional single-light casement window on the first floor. The south gable end has one three-light casement window on each floor, with a weatherboarded gable head. A single-storey outbuilding made of brick and covered with pantiles is attached to the north gable end.
Inside, the ground-floor south room contains a wide inglenook fireplace with 17th-century brickwork, 18th-century repairs, and a domed bread oven that was relined in the 18th century. It features a chamfered timber bressumer and a plain bridging beam supported by chamfered principal studs, with the timber frame exposed on the walls. The room to the south was subdivided in the mid-19th century to create a single-flight staircase and a narrow room at the extreme south, which has chamfered ceiling joists with run-out stops and a chamfered middle rail. The north room includes a secondary late 19th-century staircase within a boarded screen. This room also has a chamfered bridging beam carried on chamfered principal studs with run-out stops. The first-floor rooms showcase exposed timber framing, with the south truss featuring a steeply cambered tie beam and chamfered wall plates. There is no access to the roof.
Local climate
Broad Oak 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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