Longs Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Longs Farm House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-sentry-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Longs Farm House, Millway Lane, Palgrave, IP22 1AD
- OS grid reference
- TM 113 786
- Coordinates
- 52.36548, 1.10228
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Longs Farm House is an early 17th-century farmhouse, likely with earlier origins. It is timber-framed and roughcast, with thatched and pantiled roofs. The house is arranged in an ‘L’ shape, suggesting an original two-bay core which has been expanded by a service bay to the right and a two-cell lobby entry parlour wing at a right angle to the left. The main range is two storeys high. The service bay on the right has a partially raised, recessed six-panel door on the ground floor, and C20 casements. The first floor has C19 three- and four-light casements. An axial ridge stack sits between the hall bays, and the thatch has slightly lower eaves on the service bay, hipped at the right end. The parlour wing projects forward to the left, with an entrance in the inner angle; it features a six-panel double door with a reeded architrave and a large axial ridge stack with a moulded base. The pantiled roof is characteristic of this wing. A front gable end is present, including a ground-floor bay window. The outer elevation shows a gable at the end of the main range. The rear elevation has scattered casements, with doors in the hall and service bays. Inside the parlour bay, there's a jewel stop chamfered binding beam and stop-chamfered posts; the rest of the interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Longs Farm House 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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