Cowspasture Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Cowspasture Farm House

WRENN ID
far-cornice-cobweb
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
Cowspasture Farm House, the Common, Mellis, IP23 8EF
OS grid reference
TM 094 741
Coordinates
52.32505, 1.07261
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cowpasture Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered, topped by a steeply pitched pantiled roof. The house has a three-cell lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high with an attic.

The entrance is located to the right of the centre and is framed by a two-storey 19th-century gabled porch. The door is a six-fielded panelled architraved design, flanked by small sash windows. On the first floor, there is a single glazing bar architraved sash window, and the bargeboards are pierced. The ground floor has single glazing bar architraved sashes with hoodboards, while the first floor features three-light transomed part-opening metal frame casements.

An axial ridge stack is positioned to the right of centre and has a broached base with four conjoined hexagonal shafts. The left gable end has an added external stack with offsets and two leaded lights in the attic, along with exposed plates and purlins. The right gable end includes two-light casements. At the rear, there is a pantiled lean-to outshut behind the stack, which contains two French windows, a single leaded light on the first floor, a cross casement, and a two-light gabled dormer.

Inside, much of the frame is concealed. The ground floor features stop-chamfered axial binding beams, with stairs located in front of the stack. The first floor has stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams and a butt purlin roof with collars to the principal rafters, along with cranked wind braces. A 20th-century link leads to a former stable or brewhouse building from the 18th century. This building is timber framed, rendered with some red brick, and has a pantiled roof. It contains two boarded doors, one panelled door, a two-light leaded casement, and loft openings. The rear is made of red brick and features an internal end stack, kneelers to the gable, and a parapet.

Local climate

Cowspasture 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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