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

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Pountney Hall Grade II 229 m
  2. Barn About 40m North East of Poutney Hall Grade II 275 m
  3. Potash Farm House Grade II 575 m
  4. Beekeepers Cottage Grade II 874 m
  5. Willow Farm House Grade II 1.0 km
  6. Barn About 30m West of Hall Farm House Grade II 1.1 km
  7. Hall Farm House Grade II 1.2 km
  8. Walnut Tree Farm House Grade II 1.2 km
  9. Gibsons Farm House Grade II 1.4 km
  10. Green Farm Cottage Grade II 1.6 km