Model Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. Farm. 34 related planning applications.
Model Farm
- WRENN ID
- mired-wicket-amber
- 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
- Farm
- Address
- Model Farm, Park Road, Combs, IP14 2JG
- OS grid reference
- TM 041 565
- Coordinates
- 52.16964, 0.98443
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Model Farm, built in 1867, is a red brick structure with gault brick quoins, designed by J.O. Fraser and completed under the supervision of O. Andrews, with Andrews & Son as the builders. A plaque above the limestone entrance archway commemorates the construction and design team. The farm comprises a series of ranges arranged around a yard, with slate roofs (some areas have been finished with asbestos sheeting). The front range has a gable front. The layout features an outer gateway with 5 gabled bays, alternately set backward and forward. The gateway itself has a semicircular arch topped with a plaque, framed and boarded gates, and an octagonal timber lantern on the roof. The second bay on each side features a shallow blind arch, and the fourth bay contains two doorways with framed and boarded doors. The barn, timber-framed and weather-boarded, is situated at the rear of the yard, which is further infilled with other timber-framed buildings.
Local climate
Model Farm 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 64 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 34 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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