Lime Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. A C16 House. 2 related planning applications.
Lime Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- final-flue-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lime Tree Farmhouse, Wickham Road, Finningham
- OS grid reference
- TM 065 692
- Coordinates
- 52.2826, 1.0274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lime Tree Farmhouse is a house that dates from the late 16th century, with extensions from the 18th century and alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame set on a brick base and is plastered on the exterior. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with pantiles. The layout follows a three-cell lobby entry plan, with an additional bay added to the service end. The house has two storeys and an attic.
The original front facing the garden includes a 20th-century gabled porch positioned to the right of the center, along with one and two-light 20th-century glazing bar casements. The eaves are boxed, and there is an axial ridge stack located to the right of the center, between the hall and the parlour. The gable ends feature casement windows in the attic, showcasing exposed cambered collars that clasp the purlins, which are supported by halved principals. An added one-storey bay on the left side displays exposed plates and purlins in the gable end. At the rear, there is a 20th-century gabled porch leading to the service bay.
Inside, the farmhouse has stop-chamfered axial binding beams and joists, along with four-light diamond mullioned window openings. The parlour contains an 18th-century cupboard with fluted pilasters and a key-blocked depressed arch. There is an original newel staircase located in front of the stack, and an S-shaped chamfered tie beam provides headroom into the hall chamber. The roof features arched windbraces in a clasped purlin construction.
Local climate
Lime Tree 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 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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