Hollybush Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Hollybush Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scattered-gutter-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hollybush Farmhouse, Holly Bush Lane, Rattlesden, IP30 0SU
- OS grid reference
- TL 964 573
- Coordinates
- 52.1794, 0.87207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hollybush Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It is two storeys high with attics and has a complex plan that includes a hall range to the right, a cross-wing at the centre, and a one-storey service range with attics added in the 18th century to the left. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring 20th-century herringbone pargetting in panels. The cross-wing has an oversailing tie beam at the gable, with exposed studding above. The roofs are covered with plain tiles.
To the right, there is an internal end chimney made of 17th or 18th-century red brick, and a large 18th-century axial chimney in the service range, which has an adjacent 19th-century casement dormer. The windows are mainly 20th-century mullioned, some with leaded glazing, while others are restored 17th-century windows. The entrance is located at the rear. The framing from the 17th century is rather plain, featuring primary-braced studding and on-edge floor joists, along with a butt purlin roof. Inside the cross-wing, there is a wide lintelled open fireplace. The unusual layout of the 17th-century house may indicate early alterations or enlargements.
Local climate
Hollybush 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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