Bluehouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. Farmhouse.

Bluehouse Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tilted-tin-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Bluehouse Farmhouse, Combs
OS grid reference
TM 049 556
Coordinates
52.16142, 0.99503
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bluehouse Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from no later than the early 17th century and may have origins in the medieval period. The building features a hall range and one cross-wing, which dates to around 1600 on the left side. It is one storey high with attics and is constructed with a timber frame. The hall range is covered with beaded weatherboarding from the 18th or early 19th century, while the cross-wing is plastered and includes some 18th or early 19th century herringbone pargetting in panels at the gable, with partial weatherboarding on the side. The roof is thatched and includes a 19th century gabled dormer that is tiled, featuring undulating bargeboards and a small-pane casement window. There are two axial chimneys made of red brick with 18th or early 19th century shafts. The deep bargeboards have an undulating soffit and a spike finial at the gable. The windows are early 19th century small-pane casements, and the entrance door is also from the early 19th century, consisting of six panels with fielded lower panels and glazed upper panels. The interior has not been examined.

Local climate

Bluehouse Farmhouse 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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