Pond Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Pond Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- idle-rafter-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Pond Farmhouse, Fingal Street, Worlingworth, IP13 7PD
- OS grid reference
- TM 217 693
- Coordinates
- 52.27779, 1.24869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pond Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. The building features a brick casing with a datestone reading 'SP 1873' on the left gable end. It is timber framed, with the facade encased and the left gable end rebuilt in white brick. The right gable end is brick-cased and rendered, while the rear is plastered. The roof is covered with pantiles and the house has two storeys and an attic, following a three-cell, lobby entry layout.
The facade includes three mid-20th century standard casement windows with replacement timber lintels. A gabled porch, added in 1873, features a mid-20th century door. Inside, there is an internal stack, with the lower half of the shaft being original, and a 19th-century stack on the outside of the right gable end. Much of the original timber frame remains intact, showcasing reverse-curved braces and evidence of diamond-mullioned windows on both floors and in one gable.
The ground floor has axial bridging beams in all three rooms, with chamfered joists in the hall and plain joists elsewhere. There is no evidence of original partitioning on the first floor above the hall and service end. The roof structure includes clasped and stepped butt purlins with cranked wind braces. One collar is supported by a central post from the tie beam, and there is evidence of another collar that has since been removed, both dating from the 17th century. The newel stairs have a lower flight that was rebuilt in the 19th century.
Local climate
Pond 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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