Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
slow-flue-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1955
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Church Farmhouse, Forward Green, Earl Stonham
OS grid reference
TM 107 588
Coordinates
52.18751, 1.08129
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century and early 18th century, with alterations made in the mid-20th century. The building has a three-cell plan and is two storeys high. It features a timber-framed structure with plastering and a plaintiled roof. The roof includes a central 17th-century chimney made of red brick with a sawtooth shaft, pierced crested ridge tiles, and carved 19th-century bargeboards on the gable of the parlour block to the right. The windows are small-pane sashes and casements, most of which were renewed in the 20th century. There is a glazed entrance door set in a long pantiled lean-to extension.

The prominent parlour block showcases typical early 17th-century framing, with on-edge floor joists and close-studding, many of which are broad and reused. Inside, there are three open fireplaces; one in the hall features a reused roll-moulded 16th-century beam as a lintel, which is carved with a trailing vine motif and decorated with bunches of grapes. The lower hall range was completely rebuilt in the 18th century and displays fully-exposed primary-braced studding.

Local climate

Church 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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