Fen Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. Farmhouse.

Fen Farmhouse

WRENN ID
shifting-gateway-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 April 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Fen Farmhouse, Brettingham Road, Rattlesden
OS grid reference
TL 971 551
Coordinates
52.15968, 0.88157
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fen Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with an extension added around 1600. It has one storey and attics, as well as two storeys. Originally, the house was built in a three-cell layout; a parlour block was added to the right, and the hall was enlarged from the earlier parlour block around 1600. The structure is timber-framed and roughcast, topped with a thatched roof featuring one 19th-century casement dormer.

There is an axial chimney from around 1600 made of very narrow pink and buff bricks. The farmhouse includes a complete set of mid-19th-century windows with small-paned cast iron casements. A 19th-century gabled porch is located at the cross-entry position, featuring a half-glazed four-panelled door. Inside, the earlier building shows close-studding and plain unchamfered floor joists, while the later work includes chamfered joists and beams with lambstongue stops. There is also a blocked diamond-mullioned window. The later roof features a pair of principal rafters with a collar beam and windbraced clasped purlins. A wide lintelled open fireplace is present in the hall.

Local climate

Fen 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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