Whitewheat Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. A C15 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Whitewheat Farmhouse

WRENN ID
guardian-belfry-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Whitewheat Farmhouse, Upper Street, Baylham
OS grid reference
TM 106 517
Coordinates
52.12368, 1.07517
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Whitewheat Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has a core dating from the 15th century or early 16th century, with extensions added around 1600 and later. The building has one storey and attics, and is constructed of timber framing with plaster. It features a thatched roof with a central axial chimney made of red brick, while the later extensions have pantiled roofs. There is a thatched gabled casement dormer, and the windows are mainly 19th-century small-pane casements, with a small-pane sash window located in the parlour. The entrance door is a boarded door from the 19th century.

The central part of the house originally began as a modest two-bay open hall, which shows signs of being smoke-blackened and has an arch-braced open truss. Around 1600, an upper floor was added to the hall, created in two levels and possibly in two stages. A large chimney was also inserted into the upper bay, and a two-bay parlour cell was added at that end. At the lower end of the house, there is an additional extension from the 18th century, and close to the road, there is another extension from the 19th century that features a hipped roof.

Local climate

Whitewheat Farmhouse 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 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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