Valley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Valley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-keep-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Valley Farmhouse, Bildeston Road, Offton, IP8 4RS
- OS grid reference
- TM 054 495
- Coordinates
- 52.10626, 0.9992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Valley Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 16th century, featuring a crosswing, while the main range was rebuilt around 1800. The building has two storeys. The crosswing is constructed from timber framing and is plastered, while the main range is made of red brick and includes a dentil course at the eaves. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and have an axial chimney made of red brick. The ridge tiles are crested and pierced with trefoils. The windows are 20th-century casements, and there is a 20th-century glazed panelled entrance door that opens into a doorway from around 1800. The 16th-century wing showcases studwork with arched stud-bracing. Inside, there is a crownpost roof, and the archbraced open truss features a square crownpost with two-way plank bracing. Many of the rafters, collars, and other structural members are smoke-blackened, indicating they were reused from a medieval house.
Local climate
Valley 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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