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
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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