Sancroft Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Farmhouse.
Sancroft Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- under-postern-torch
- 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
- Sancroft Manor Farmhouse, Laxfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 273 723
- Coordinates
- 52.30228, 1.3333
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sancroft Manor Farmhouse is a late 16th-century farmhouse that features a timber-framed and plastered structure, with the right gable end rebuilt in brick. The roof is tiled with plain tiles on the front and pantiles on the rear. The building has two storeys and an attic, designed in a three-cell, lobby entry style. It includes four windows, which are small-paned casements from the 19th and mid-20th centuries. The entrance door, from the mid-20th century, is boarded and battened, while the 19th-century interior features a moulded architrave and cornice. There is an internal stack and an external gable stack on the right side. The first floor displays exposed framing with reversed braces and signs of former diamond-mullioned windows. The hall and parlour contain chamfered joists, and the service end was originally divided into two sections. A solid tread stair leads to the attic. At the rear, there is a small former dairy addition that has a large blocked window.
Local climate
Sancroft Manor 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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