Doves Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. Farmhouse.
Doves Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gilded-entrance-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Doves Farmhouse, Ashfield Cum Thorpe
- OS grid reference
- TM 216 608
- Coordinates
- 52.20112, 1.24194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Doves Farmhouse is a 17th-century building that originally served as a farmhouse and has been converted into four farmworkers' cottages. The structure is timber framed, with a 19th-century brick exterior and a pantile roof that was originally thatched. It stands two storeys tall.
On the entrance front, the brick is laid in Flemish bond, featuring a door with six flush panels slightly left of center, flanked by 19th-century casement windows. The first floor has four 3-light casements. There is a large axial ridge stack positioned right of center with two flues.
The left side includes a gabled brick porch on the right, with a cambered arch to the left of which is a 3-light window. The first floor wall is rendered, and there is a jettied gable. A two-storey lean-to is located on the left.
On the right gable end, there is a similar gabled porch on the left, with a 2-light casement window on the ground floor to the right and a single-light window on the first floor, along with a jettied gable. The rear of the building is completely obscured by a two-storey 20th-century outshut that has random fenestration. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Doves Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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