Hicks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Farmhouse.
Hicks Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- standing-roof-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hicks Farmhouse, Earl Stonham
- OS grid reference
- TM 089 589
- Coordinates
- 52.18898, 1.05585
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hicks Farmhouse is a former farmhouse, primarily dating from the late 17th century, though it may have an earlier core. It features a lobby-entrance plan and stands two storeys tall, with some attics. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof that was formerly thatched, and has a red brick axial chimney. The windows are mainly mid-20th century casements, and there is a flush entrance door with a fully-glazed porch. Much of the framing is exposed, showcasing a significant reuse of medieval components, likely from a 14th-century open hall house, with wall plates that have a splayed scarf joint from that period. The clasped purlin roof is constructed mainly from smoke-encrusted medieval rafters. The house consists of four cells and may have been built in two stages, with the left-hand section being the earlier part.
Local climate
Hicks Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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