Field House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Field House
- WRENN ID
- grim-doorway-russet
- 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
- Field House, Station Road, Laxfield, IP13 8HG
- OS grid reference
- TM 286 726
- Coordinates
- 52.30467, 1.35212
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Field House is a farmhouse that dates back to the 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building has a half-H shape, featuring cross-wings that are set forward, along with an additional wing on the left, likely from the 18th century. The core of the house is timber framed but is entirely encased in red brick from the 18th century, displaying a chequered pattern with dark headers. The roof is covered with plain tiles and features crest tiles, shaped bargeboards with pierced quatrefoils at the feet, and spike finials.
The windows are late 19th-century casements with mullions and transoms, each having a single horizontal glazing bar, flat arches, and chamfered reveals. The right-hand wing includes a two-storey canted bay. There is a gabled porch at the junction of the main range and the right-hand wing, which has a half-glazed four-panel door with a four-centre arched head. The house has two stacks with late 19th-century chimney shafts.
Inside, the Victorianized hall has a cross-beamed ceiling with multiple mouldings that extend down one visible wall post, and the cornice is also moulded. The parlour in the right wing features a similar ceiling but with less complex moulding. The ceiling of the parlour chamber has plaster-moulded cross beams divided into four sections, with simply-moulded borders, although one section is missing. The wallplate in this wing shows small remnants of early painted decoration.
The left-hand wing is slightly older, containing heavy first-floor studding, a moulded and cambered tie beam, and a queen-post roof. The roof over the main part of the house has a single row of wind-braced clasped purlins, and the collars have curved braces that meet to form a shallow arch, with the apex integrated with the collars, which is an unusual feature. There are also remains of a medieval moated enclosure to the east of the property.
Local climate
Field 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 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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