Messuage Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Farmhouse.
Messuage Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scarred-lintel-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Messuage Farmhouse, Russels Green, Wilby
- OS grid reference
- TM 251 725
- Coordinates
- 52.30531, 1.30118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Messuage Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, built in two phases. It features a timber frame that is roughcast-rendered, topped with a roof made of glazed black pantiles. The building has two storeys and a three-cell layout. The windows are mid-20th century standard casements with large panes. There is a lobby entry that includes a small gabled porch and a mid-20th century half-glazed door. The farmhouse has an internal stack and a 19th-century external stack on the left gable end. Although the interior has been modernised, the main components of the frame remain intact. The bridging beams in the hall and parlour have solid arched braces connecting to the wallposts. There is also evidence of first-floor diamond-mullioned windows, and the parlour cell is a later addition.
Local climate
Messuage 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 88% 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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