Mere Close Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Mere Close Farm

WRENN ID
night-flint-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Mere Close Farm, Green Road, Haughley, IP14 3RA
OS grid reference
TM 028 628
Coordinates
52.22675, 0.96902
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mere Close Farm is an early 17th-century farmhouse, with a possible earlier core. It originally had a 3-cell cross-entry plan. The house is two storeys high and built with a timber frame, now covered with pebble-dashed rendering. The roof is pantiled, previously thatched, and features a pair of carved brackets beneath 19th-century bargeboards with carved and pierced soffits and a long drop-finial at the right-hand gable. An early 17th-century axial chimney is constructed of red brick, featuring a sunk date panel at its base and a sawtooth shaft. A mid-19th century entrance doorway is located in the cross-entry position, accompanied by a gabled porch with carved brackets and decorative bargeboards. A rear service wing, likely dating to the 17th century or earlier, is also present. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Mere Close Farm 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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