Shrub Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Shrub Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- cold-thatch-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Shrub Farmhouse, Fir Tree Lane, Haughley, IP14 3RL
- OS grid reference
- TM 028 643
- Coordinates
- 52.24, 0.96984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shrub Farmhouse is a late 16th-century farmhouse featuring a two-cell end-chimney plan. It stands two storeys high with attics and is constructed of timber framing with plaster. The roof is slated, having originally been thatched, and there is an internal end chimney made of red brick from the 16th century. The windows are from the 18th century and have wrought iron casements. A 20th-century gabled entrance porch with a panelled door has been added. To the right, there is a mid to late 19th-century two-storey extension with two small-pane sash windows. The farmhouse displays good unmoulded framing throughout. Inside, there are twin service rooms that have been united, along with an original staircase featuring splat balusters at the top. The floor joists are chamfered and laid flat, while the attic floor joists are massive, unchamfered, and repurposed from a medieval house. The roof structure includes clasped purlins.
Local climate
Shrub 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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