White Swan Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
White Swan Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- bitter-grate-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- White Swan Farmhouse, Bobby Hill, Wattisfield, IP22 1NL
- OS grid reference
- TM 008 744
- Coordinates
- 52.33121, 0.94639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Swan Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered and topped with double roman tiles. The building has two storeys and attics, arranged in a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The internal chimney stack has a wide, plain, rebuilt red brick shaft. At the front of the stack, there is a high gable that projects from the roof, adorned with pierced and fluted bargeboards and a spike finial, along with a single-light window at the apex.
The upper floor includes three three-light casement windows from the 20th century, with a bar, and one single-light window. The ground floor has three standard 20th-century casement windows. Access is through a 20th-century plank door that has a glazed panel. The frame consists of four bays, which includes a chimney bay. Inside, the hall and parlour feature chamfered main beams with curved stepped stops and grooves, while the joists are chamfered and set flat. The back of the parlour fireplace shows rounded brickwork, and the upper fireplace has a cut-down timber lintel.
The upper gable ends reveal good exposed studding, with main posts that have long jowls and arched braces that have been removed. There is a shutter-slide in the rear wall plate. The roof is structured in four bays, featuring clasped purlins and arched windbraces, with the collars removed. Additionally, a single-storey lean-to has been added along the entire rear of the farmhouse.
Local climate
White Swan Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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