Parkgate House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. A 16th/17th century Farmhouse.

Parkgate House

WRENN ID
floating-rubblework-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Period
16th/17th century
Address
Parkgate House, Ipswich Road, Helmingham
OS grid reference
TM 189 573
Coordinates
52.17106, 1.20088
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Parkgate House is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, or possibly the late 16th century, with mid-19th century remodelling. It features a three-cell lobby-entrance plan and is constructed of timber framing with roughcast. The roof is plaintiled and includes an axial 17th-century chimney made of red brick, along with another chimney from the 18th or 19th century at the left-hand gable. The mid-19th century casement windows have heavy mullions and transoms, particularly those on the ground floor. There is a 19th-century gabled porch at the lobby entrance, which has a boarded and battened door. At the rear, there is a two-storey wing from the 19th century, built of red brick with a plaintiled roof. The interior has not been examined.

Local climate

Parkgate House 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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