Fir Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1988. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Fir Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- worn-hearth-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fir Tree Farmhouse, Crownland Road, Walsham-Le-Willows
- OS grid reference
- TM 015 701
- Coordinates
- 52.29226, 0.95446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Tree Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse that features a timber-framed structure with roughcast and a thatched roof. The building has two storeys and a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack made of old red brick, along with a later stack and a slated single-storey lean-to addition on the right side.
The upper floor has three 3-light casement windows, one of which is old and has pintle hinges, all featuring square leading. The ground floor also has three 3-light casement windows, two of which include transoms and cross-bars, while one has cross-bars only. The entrance door, dating from the 19th century, has six flush panels.
The frame consists of four bays, including a chimney bay, and displays good close-studding without visible bracing on the inside. To the right of the stack, the ground floor ceiling features a main beam with a chamfer and jewel stops, along with plain, slightly chamfered joists. On the upper floor, there is a section of fine Jacobean panelling that includes ornate lozenges in the panels and scribed designs on the rails and styles. One half-glazed door contains panes of old bottle glass. The house is oriented sideways to the road and has a 19th-century single-storey addition along the north side.
Local climate
Fir 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- 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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