Mount Pleasant Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. A Post-Medieval Farmhouse.
Mount Pleasant Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lost-keep-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Mount Pleasant Farmhouse, Newton Road, Stowupland
- OS grid reference
- TM 053 597
- Coordinates
- 52.19759, 1.00333
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mount Pleasant Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse located on Newton Road in Stowmarket. The building has two storeys and features a two-cell end chimney plan. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, and it has a concrete tiled roof that was originally thatched. There is an internal end chimney with a red brick shaft that was rebuilt in the 19th century. The farmhouse has mid-20th century steel small-pane casements and a boarded door positioned at the cross-entry, which is sheltered by a 20th-century concrete tiled porch.
Local climate
Mount Pleasant 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 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
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