Broomvale House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Broomvale House
- WRENN ID
- dim-sill-hazel
- 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
- Broomvale House, Bramford Road, Little Blakenham, Ipswich, IP8 4JU
- OS grid reference
- TM 121 491
- Coordinates
- 52.09962, 1.09645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Broomvale House is a farmhouse with a core dating back to the 16th century, featuring significant alterations from the early 19th and early 20th centuries. The main entrance front, which faces south, is a two-storey, three-window range built in the 19th century, constructed of painted brick with a plaintiled roof and an external end chimney. The windows have flat arches made of gauged brick, with small-pane sashes on the upper storey and French windows with louvred shutters on the ground storey. The entrance door has six panels, with the upper panels being glazed, and is framed by a reeded architrave and a pentice board supported by slender brackets.
At the rear, a two-storey range from the 16th century serves as the service wing, containing the original hall and service cell. This section is timber framed and plastered, featuring some 18th-century herringbone pargetting in panels. The west elevation has notable 18th-century windows, which are three-light with transoms and iron casements; the first-storey windows include leaded lights, while the ground-floor window has a pair of boarded shutters. The twin service rooms display good exposed framing from the early 16th century or possibly the 15th century, with some parts rebuilt in the mid-16th century, including a roll-moulded bridging joist and chamfered common joists. The hall may have also been rebuilt during this period. Additionally, there is a large two-storey extension added around 1930 at the rear.
Local climate
Broomvale House 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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