Thornbush Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Farmhouse.
Thornbush Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- white-lime-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Thornbush Farmhouse, Angel Hill, Stonham Aspal
- OS grid reference
- TM 124 588
- Coordinates
- 52.18677, 1.10586
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thornbush Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the early 16th century, with alterations around 1600 and in the 20th century. It features a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan and stands two storeys high. The structure is timber-framed and rough-cast, with a roof covered in glazed and unglazed clay pantiles. There is a central 17th-century chimney made of red brick, which has a sawtooth shaft on an oblong base.
The building includes 20th-century casements and a panelled entrance door located at the cross-entry position. Inside, there are some heavy unchamfered first-floor joists and a reset 4-centred arched doorway in the hall. To the right, the parlour cell showcases good complete close-studding from around 1600. The 18th-century butt-purlin roof over the hall incorporates several smoke-encrusted medieval rafters, which may have originally come from this house.
Local climate
Thornbush Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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