Fidgeons Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. A Post-Medieval Farmhouse.
Fidgeons Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pitched-roof-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Fidgeons Farmhouse, Bullen Lane, Bramford
- OS grid reference
- TM 113 461
- Coordinates
- 52.07294, 1.08213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fidgeons Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a three-cell lobby-entrance plan and stands two storeys high with attics. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a plaintiled roof that includes an axial chimney made of red brick. The windows are 20th-century casements, and there is a boarded entrance door. Inside, there are back-to-back open fireplaces in the hall and parlour, as well as another arched fireplace in the parlour chamber. The parlour contains an ovolo-moulded bridging joist, and the roof is of the clasped-purlin type. A continuous rear outshut made of red brick was added in the 19th century. The farmhouse was restored around 1980.
Local climate
Fidgeons Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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