The Limes is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
The Limes
- WRENN ID
- crooked-timber-thyme
- 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
- The Limes, Rectory Road, Bacton, IP14 4LE
- OS grid reference
- TM 043 665
- Coordinates
- 52.2594, 0.99287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Limes is a former farmhouse, likely built in the late 16th century. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with an oversailing tiebeam at the east gable, and the wallplates are supported on brackets. The roof is covered with plain tiles and includes one gabled casement dormer. There is an axial chimney made of red brick from the 16th or 17th century, with a sawtooth shaft that may be a 20th-century replica of the original. The windows are oak mullioned casements dating from around 1980. The entrance door, which is battened and boarded, is from the 20th century and has two glazed panels; it is located in a small extension at the rear, which also features an open 20th-century lean-to porch supported by posts. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
The Limes 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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