College Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Farmhouse.

College Farmhouse

WRENN ID
heavy-granite-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
College Farmhouse, 1 and 2, Earl Stonham Road, Stonham Parva
OS grid reference
TM 110 615
Coordinates
52.21193, 1.08712
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

College Farmhouse is a former farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings, dating from around 1550 to 1570. The building has two storeys and features a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan. It is constructed of timber framing with plaster and has a Roman pantiled roof, which was once thatched. There is an axial chimney made of red brick that dates from the 16th or 17th century.

The farmhouse has mid-20th century small-pane casements and glazed panelled entrance doors. It is a well-preserved example of its type, with all three cells featuring unusually roll-moulded first-floor joists. In the hall and parlour, there are also double-ogee moulded bridging joists. The building includes a pair of service room doorways, one of which retains its four-centred arched head, while the parlour doorway is similar. The parlour chamber has an open truss with an arch-braced collar beam instead of the usual tie-beam. The structure showcases close-studding with tension stud-bracing and has a good wind-braced clasped purlin roof. The hall features a wide open fireplace with a cambered lintel.

Local climate

College 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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