Oak Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. Farmhouse.

Oak Hill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
moated-hall-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 October 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Oak Hill Farmhouse, Harleston Road, Metfield
OS grid reference
TM 288 803
Coordinates
52.37365, 1.3603
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oak Hill Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse built in two phases. It features a timber frame with plaster and a pantiled roof, which has glazed black tiles on the rear slope. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a three-cell layout. There are four windows, mostly casements from the 18th and 19th centuries, along with two small-paned windows from the mid-20th century on the ground floor. The entrance is a mid-20th century gabled porch with a side entrance, containing a 19th-century four-panelled door with glazed upper panels. Inside, there is an internal axial stack and a later stack positioned forward of the roof ridge. Attached to the service end are kitchen and dairy additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. The interior displays good quality framing, particularly on the first floor, and shows evidence of several blocked original windows. The parlour end is older, with a wallplate that was originally about 0.6 meters lower than the rest of the house.

Local climate

Oak Hill Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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