Walnut Tree Cottage Walnut Tree Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. House.

Walnut Tree Cottage Walnut Tree Farm House

WRENN ID
roaming-footing-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1988
Type
House
Address
Walnut Tree Cottage Walnut Tree Farm House, Thorpe Street, Hinderclay
OS grid reference
TM 019 773
Coordinates
52.35696, 0.96416
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Cottage and Walnut Tree Farm House is a house that has been divided into two dwellings. It dates from the early 16th century, with stacks and a floor added and extended in the mid-17th century, and further alterations and extensions made in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame with plaster and has a thatched roof that was originally half hipped at both ends.

The original structure consisted of four bays, including a small two-bay open hall and storeyed end bays. Stacks were inserted in the hall's lower bay and at the lower end, along with an added service bay. The house is one storey and has an attic. There are entrances in the added bay to the left and into the upper hall bay to the right, both featuring 20th-century casements. The building has three gabled dormers, with the right dormer having three lights and part opening with glazing bars. There are ridge stacks to the right of centre and an axial stack at the original left end, with a later ridge stack inserted in the upper bay. The original half hip remains at the right end, which also has a lean-to outshut. The left end features a two-light glazing bar attic casement, and there is a lean-to outshut at the rear.

Inside, the hall has an open truss with arched braces that spring below the inserted floor, along with stop-chamfered side girts, an axial binding beam, and a fireplace bressumer. The original frame consists of small scantling with straight arched braces in the walling, and there are original six-light diamond mullioned window openings in the hall's upper bay. The interior also includes a plain tie beam in the open truss and a coupled rafter roof with some blackening. The original lower bay has been much altered, featuring a 17th-century ogee stop-chamfered axial binding beam. The 20th-century extension to the left is not of special interest.

Local climate

Walnut Tree Cottage Walnut Tree Farm House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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