Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Abbey Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- steep-rampart-bracken
- 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
- Abbey Farmhouse, Woolpit, IP30 9RQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 975 613
- Coordinates
- 52.21471, 0.89061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Farmhouse is a former farmhouse located in Woolpit, dating from the early 16th century with alterations made in the early 17th century and around 1970. The building has one storey and attics and features a two-cell open hall house with significant additions. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with a thatched roof. The roof includes a central 17th-century chimney made of pink and buff brick, along with another external gable chimney from the same period.
The farmhouse has an eyebrow casement dormer and mid-20th-century small-pane casements. The entrance door is boarded and dates from the 20th century. Inside, the two-bay open hall has a storeyed cell at the east end, with arch windbraced widely-spaced studding. The roof features a queen post design, although the open truss has been removed. The first-floor joists are unchamfered, and a 17th-century inserted first floor in the hall has on-edge joists. There is a wide lintelled open fireplace from this period in the second cell. Additionally, two single-cell extensions were added on either side in the 17th century; one includes a lintelled parlour fireplace, while the other features a diamond mullioned window.
Local climate
Abbey 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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