Oak Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Oak Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- steep-paling-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Oak Farmhouse, the Common, Metfield, IP20 0LP
- OS grid reference
- TM 304 788
- Coordinates
- 52.35938, 1.38342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, constructed in four phases. It features a timber frame with exposed studding, much of which is closely spaced, and has a plaintiled roof. The building is two storeys high with an attic and consists of a single unusually long range. Various windows include moulded mullions, some original and others from the mid-20th century in a matching style, along with several casement windows, mainly from the mid-20th century. There is a gabled brick porch with a four-panelled door that dates to the 20th century, and one gabled dormer.
The farmhouse has an internal stack and an external stack against the front wall. To the left, there is an overhanging gable supported by original carved brackets. Inside, the interior showcases much fine exposed timbering. In the parlour addition at the left end, the bridging beam is supported on wineglass-pattern corbels carved on the storey posts. The chamber above features fine studding and an applied crenellated cornice. Two of the other first-floor rooms have cross-beamed ceilings, with one room containing 16th and 17th-century oak panelling. In the cross-passage of the earliest section, there is a doorway with carved spandrels. At the right-hand end, there is a one-bay addition with a queen-post roof and diamond-mullioned windows, which has been used as a dairy.
Local climate
Oak Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 4 applications
- 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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