The Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1988. Farmhouse.
The Homestead
- WRENN ID
- second-arch-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Homestead, 47 Lower Oakley, Brome and Oakley
- OS grid reference
- TM 160 779
- Coordinates
- 52.3568, 1.17168
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead is a former farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, which was extended to the left in the late 17th or early 18th century to create a three-cell house. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof, and has one and a half storeys. The building features three windows with mid-20th century casements, a lobby entrance with a mid-20th century gabled porch, and a boarded and battened door. There is also a small gabled dormer and an internal stack with a rendered shaft. The interior has been modernised but retains exposed timbering. The left-hand cell was likely used as a dairy.
Local climate
The Homestead 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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