Barbers Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. A C16 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Barbers Farmhouse

WRENN ID
twelfth-nave-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1955
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Barbers Farmhouse, Fressingfield, IP21 5SG
OS grid reference
TM 285 771
Coordinates
52.34461, 1.35352
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Barbers Farmhouse, originally known as Wilkinson's Farmhouse, is a 16th-century farmhouse that has more recently been used as two cottages. It features a timber frame with plastering, and the facade is designed to imitate ashlar. The roof is covered with plain tiles at the front and pantiles at the rear. The building has two storeys and an attic, arranged in a three-cell form. There is a range of three windows, all of which were boarded over at the time of the survey, along with two boarded entrance doors. A single gabled dormer is present. The internal stack, which used to have four detached circular shafts, was rebuilt in a plain style in the mid-20th century. An 18th-century external stack is located at the service end, with its lower part incorporated into a small brick addition against the gable end. The interior was not inspected.

Local climate

Barbers Farmhouse 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 3 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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