West End Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. Farmhouse.
West End Farm House
- WRENN ID
- north-transept-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West End Farm House, Gislingham Road, Mellis
- OS grid reference
- TM 081 734
- Coordinates
- 52.31992, 1.05303
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West End Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century and possibly earlier, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of timber frame and clay lump, with a plastered finish and steeply pitched pantiled roofs. The building has an L-shaped plan and stands two storeys high. The entrance is located to the right of the three-bay main range, featuring a four raised panelled door set in an open gabled porch. The ground floor has two-light casements, while the first floor has four-light casements. A small ridge stack is positioned to the right of the centre. The left gable end reveals exposed plates and purlins, along with two-light casements. At the rear, there is an entrance into the left bay, with 20th-century casements and two gabled dormers—one from the 19th century with a small sash window and another from the 20th century. To the front right, there is a gable-fronted two-cell cross wing featuring three-light casements, exposed plates and purlins, and slightly taller eaves and ridge. A large axial stack, rebuilt at the cap, is centrally located on the ridge. The plain outer return has two and three-light casements at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
West End Farm 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 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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