Lodge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. Farmhouse.
Lodge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-clay-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lodge Farmhouse, Cake Street, Laxfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 293 739
- Coordinates
- 52.31579, 1.36291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lodge Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse that features a timber frame and plastered exterior with a thatched roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of a single long range. It has various old casement windows that do not have glazing bars. There is a lobby entrance with a thatched porch and a 19th-century half-glazed door. An internal stack is present, with the shaft having been rebuilt in the 19th century.
The interior has been largely modified in the Victorian era. The parlour contains very heavy plain joists and a bridging beam with remnants of moulding, while the rear storey post is also moulded. There is some good quality first-floor framing, and a queen-post roof is situated over the hall. The service end of the house has undergone alterations and enlargement, with the framing in the end chamber featuring thin, widely spaced studs.
Local climate
Lodge Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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