Allen's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1988. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Allen's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
haunted-chapel-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Allen's Farmhouse, Braiseworth Lane, IP23 7DT
OS grid reference
TM 129 719
Coordinates
52.30396, 1.12266
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Allen's Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It is timber framed and rendered, with a thatched roof. The building has a three-cell form and stands two storeys high, featuring three windows with old three-light casements, each light having a single horizontal glazing bar. The lobby entry includes a four-panel door, which is enclosed by a 20th-century gabled porch that is also thatched. There is a boarded half-door leading into the service end at the right gable end. Each gable end has one-storey lean-to additions. At the rear, there is a small thatched wing and a parlour window with old square-leaded glass.

Inside, the hall and service end have plain on-edge joists, while the parlour has plain joists set flat. The chamber above the parlour features plain studding and an original fireplace with a 19th-century grate. The service end retains an old brick floor, a copper, and a bread oven. In the hall, there is a good early 18th-century corner cupboard with panelled doors that have original hinges. The roof has not been examined.

Local climate

Allen's 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 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 — 1 transaction since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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