Fen Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Farmhouse.
Fen Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- western-mortar-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fen Farmhouse, Combs Lane
- OS grid reference
- TM 036 582
- Coordinates
- 52.18463, 0.9776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fen Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century or earlier, and it may have a medieval core. The building features a hall range that is one storey high with attics, and it has crosswings at either end. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with roofs that are pantiled, although they were probably originally thatched. There are two 19th-century gabled casement dormers. An axial chimney made of orange and buff bricks dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century. The windows are mostly late 19th-century or early 20th-century casements, many of which have transoms. The entrance porch, which is made of painted brick, dates from the mid to late 19th century and features a plaintiled roof with a coped parapet gable. The entrance door is a four-panelled design with a pointed fanlight. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
Fen 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 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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