St Edmund's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

St Edmund's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
guardian-stronghold-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
St Edmund's Farmhouse, the Street, Brundish, IP13 8BL
OS grid reference
TM 260 706
Coordinates
52.2876, 1.31349
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Edmund's Farmhouse is a manor farmhouse dating from the late 14th century, with a cross-wing added in the 18th to 19th centuries on the left side. The building underwent extensive modernization in the mid-20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a roof primarily made of glazed black pantiles. The farmhouse has two storeys and features various mid-20th century casement windows, along with a boarded entrance door from the same period. A section of the front wall has been raised above the eaves level.

The internal and gable stacks have small shafts that date to the mid-20th century. The main range includes a two-bay former open hall with a raised-aisle roof. The open truss features an arch-braced cambered tie beam that supports square or cruciform queen-posts, some of which have been cut through and removed. On the upper tie beam, there is a cruciform crown-post with broach stops and solid arched bracing to the collar purlin in a two-bay arrangement. The rafters over the hall and one gable wall remain intact, although all roof components are heavily sooted. The rest of the house has been significantly modernized, with some studding visible in the upper walls and one bay containing a 16th-century inserted ceiling. The farmhouse is located on a former moated site.

Local climate

St Edmund's 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 88% 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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