Lodge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Farmhouse.
Lodge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- carved-ashlar-fen
- 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
- Lodge Farmhouse, Laxfield Road, Stradbroke
- OS grid reference
- TM 256 734
- Coordinates
- 52.31267, 1.30952
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lodge Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has its origins in the 15th century, with the parlour end and stack added in the early 17th century to create a three-cell house. It underwent alterations in the 19th century and mid-20th century. The building is timber framed and roughcast-rendered, with the left gable end likely rebuilt in brick and also rendered. The roof is pantiled, featuring glazed black tiles at the front. The farmhouse has two storeys and an attic, with three windows that are mainly 18th century casements, some of which have old square-leaded glass. There are two doorways: to the left, there is a boarded half-door with a simple gabled porch, and to the right, a lobby entrance with a 19th century four-panel door, the upper panels of which are glazed. Inside, there is an internal stack and a small gable stack to the left. The medieval core includes a hall and service end, which have been considerably altered, with the walls raised by about 1.3 meters, likely in the 19th century when the current roof was installed. The hall features an inserted floor with chamfered joists, while the parlour cell has plain studding and floor structure, with the roof over this end renewed in the mid-20th century.
Local climate
Lodge Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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