Rectory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1988. Farmhouse.

Rectory Farmhouse

WRENN ID
haunted-cellar-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Rectory Farmhouse, Braiseworth
OS grid reference
TM 133 718
Coordinates
52.30333, 1.12857
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rectory Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, featuring a three-cell main range with a later 17th-century wing that is set forward to the left, creating an L-shaped plan. The building was renovated in the 1960s and is constructed of timber framing with plaster, topped by a plain tiled roof. It has two storeys and an attic in the main range, with various mid-20th-century casement windows. A mid-20th-century glazed door serves as the lobby entry, located in a slightly projecting two-storey entrance addition. The internal stack has three tall shafts arranged in a sawtooth pattern, while there is a gable stack on the later wing. The interior has been significantly modernised, featuring axial ceiling beams in the hall and parlour with concealed joists, plain studding on the first floor, and a clasped purlin roof. The later wing includes re-used components from the 16th century or earlier, although the interior has not been fully examined.

Local climate

Rectory 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 93% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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