Common Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Common Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sharp-barrel-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Common Farmhouse, the Common, Metfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 302 787
- Coordinates
- 52.35861, 1.37993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Common Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse built in two phases, with a later 1.5-storey dairy wing to the left. It is timber framed, roughcast rendered, and has a thatched roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring a two-cell layout. The windows are casement types from the 18th and 19th centuries. There is a plank half-door to the left and a half-glazed door to the right. A central axial stack is present. The left ground floor room has a ceiling with chamfered joists set flat and a bridging beam inscribed 'FS 1690', likely indicating the date of the floor structure, although the quality of the framing above suggests it may be older. The section of the house to the right of the stack is a later addition.
Local climate
Common 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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