Bush Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1988. Farmhouse.
Bush Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- patient-mantel-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bush Farmhouse, the Street, Denham
- OS grid reference
- TM 179 731
- Coordinates
- 52.31334, 1.1958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bush Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. It is timber framed and encased in mid-19th century red brick, featuring white brick dressings. The roof has double Roman tiles on the front and pantiles on the rear. The building has two storeys and an attic, designed in a three-cell, lobby entry layout.
There are three windows on the front, which are mid-19th century three-light mullion and transom casements set under cambered arches. To the left, there is a single-light window on the ground floor and a standard mid-20th century window nearby. A mid-19th century porch, which also contains the staircase, features a parapet with a central gablet, brick copings, and finials. The door is from the mid-20th century.
The chimney stack has been rebuilt in the mid-19th century and includes polygonal grouped flues with two projecting courses of white brick and star caps. Internally, only a small portion of the original structure is visible, and the ground floor plan at the service end has been altered. The partition between the hall and service chambers includes solid curved braces connecting the tie beam and wall posts. There is evidence of heavy tie beam braces over the hall chamber. The roof features a queen-post design with reverse-curved braces to the arcade plates, but there is no bracing to the collars. It is likely that the roof was originally hipped over the service end.
Local climate
Bush 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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