Lower Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Lower Manor Farmhouse

WRENN ID
eternal-railing-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Manor Farmhouse, Valley Road, Battisford
OS grid reference
TM 046 539
Coordinates
52.14578, 0.98968
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Manor Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the mid-20th century. The building has two storeys and a three-cell layout with a lobby entrance. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with a plaintiled roof that features axial and gable chimneys made of red brick. The windows are small-pane casements from the late 20th century, and there is a boarded door at the lobby entrance. A lean-to open porch with a plaintiled roof is supported by posts. The framing is plain, showing evidence of diamond-mullioned windows, one of which survives but is blocked. The interior includes close-studding and unchamfered floor-joists, and the roof is supported by butt purlins.

Local climate

Lower Manor 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 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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