South Park Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

South Park Farmhouse

WRENN ID
shadowed-rafter-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
South Park Farmhouse, Gosbeck Road, Helmingham
OS grid reference
TM 182 568
Coordinates
52.16646, 1.19009
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

South Park Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with a core from the mid 16th century and an extension added in the early 19th century. It features a three-cell lobby entrance plan and stands two storeys high with attics. The structure is timber framed and plastered, displaying 19th-century herringbone pargetting in panels, along with some 19th-century underbuilding in painted red brick. The roofs are covered with plaintiles, and there is a 17th-century axial chimney made of red brick, along with an end chimney that has a 20th-century rebuilt shaft.

At the lobby entrance, there is a late 18th or early 19th-century gabled two-storey porch that is timber framed and roughcast, with a plaintiled roof. The porch features a round-arched outer doorway and a recessed entrance door with six fielded panels. Inside, there is some notable unmoulded 16th-century framing, including close-studding, chamfered floor joists, and a two-tier wind-braced butt purlin roof. The service cell at the rear contains a mid 16th-century core, which likely began as a two-bay hall, of which an open truss remains. The roof was rebuilt on raised walls in the 19th century. Additionally, there is a 19th-century dairy and bakehouse range that is one and a half storeys tall, made of painted red brick and topped with a plaintiled roof.

Local climate

South Park Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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