Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. A C16 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- weathered-moat-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, Stonham Road, Crowfield, IP6 9TH
- OS grid reference
- TM 142 581
- Coordinates
- 52.18033, 1.13173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from around 1550 to 1570. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with 20th-century cable-pargetting in large panels. The roof is thatched and includes one eyebrow dormer. There is a central 17th-century chimney made of red brick. The windows are mainly 20th-century small-pane casements, but several 16th-century diamond-mullioned windows are also visible and glazed. A mid-20th-century gabled entrance porch with a pair of framed and boarded doors adds to the façade.
The framing is unusually complete and of above-average quality, although it is unmoulded. It features good close-studwork and chamfered floor joists in the hall and parlour, while the service cell has unchamfered joists and was formerly divided by a stud partition. The roof has a good clasped-purlin structure with reduced principal rafters and cranked windbraces. Inside, there is a large open fireplace in the hall, which has a lintel that has been reused from a timber-framed chimney, possibly predating the current one.
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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