High House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. Farmhouse.
High House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rooted-threshold-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- High House Farmhouse, Claydon
- OS grid reference
- TM 149 496
- Coordinates
- 52.10334, 1.13774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High House Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a plaintiled roof that has an axial chimney made of red brick. The windows are mainly 20th-century small-pane casements, and there is a 20th-century gabled plaintiled entrance porch with a six-panelled door. Inside, there are back-to-back open fireplaces in the hall and parlour, with an additional fireplace in the parlour chamber. Some unglazed diamond-mullioned windows, which are fragmentary and blocked, can be found on the first floor, along with another window that has ovolo mullions. The building features arch-braced close studwork and unmoulded exposed timber on the first floor. The roof is wind-braced with clasped purlins and reduced principals. An attic was added over the hall and service end in the 17th century, along with a staircase.
Local climate
High House Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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