Holyoak Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Holyoak Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- empty-render-crimson
- 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
- Holyoak Farmhouse, Church Lane, Combs, IP14 2EH
- OS grid reference
- TM 050 565
- Coordinates
- 52.16873, 0.99731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holyoak Farmhouse is a timber-framed farmhouse dating from the early and mid 16th century, originally built in three sections. It is a two-story building with a three-cell plan. The exterior is timber-framed and roughcast; on the west side, the upper story has a long-wall jetty displaying exposed joist-ends and a bressumer. The thatched roof has axial and gable chimneys built of 19th-century red brick. Early 20th-century casement windows are present. A lean-to extension with a pantiled roof contains a boarded entrance door.
The central section of the house consists of a two-bay hall with a chamber above. It includes an altered lintelled open fireplace and previously had a roof with a coupled-rafter or crownpost form. Later in the 16th century, the house was extended in both directions. All phases of construction feature heavy, unchamfered floor joists, close studding, and a jettied upper floor. The roof contains a 16th-century wind-braced clasped purl.
Until around 1960, the building functioned as a dairy range, separate from the original main farmhouse which stood on the west side. The name of the farmstead is linked to a chained Bible that was formerly attached to a tree stump, situated near the north-west corner of the granary-cartshed, approximately 30 meters north of the farmhouse.
Local climate
Holyoak 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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- Radon risk assessment
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