Street Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Farmhouse.

Street Farmhouse

WRENN ID
vast-soffit-moth
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
Street Farmhouse, Laxfield
OS grid reference
TM 294 718
Coordinates
52.29709, 1.36337
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Street Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was built in two phases, with the hall and parlour dating from the 16th century and the service cell to the right likely from around 1600. The structure is timber framed, mostly plastered, with some sections covered in colourwashed brick. The roof is tiled with plain tiles at the front and pantiles at the rear. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring a three-cell lobby entry form. There are three windows with 18th-century small-paned casements. The early 19th-century doorway has a moulded architrave with corner squares and a cornice, and it includes a four-panelled door with glazed upper panels. Inside, there is an internal stack, with the section above the ridge having an inset panel and the top part rebuilt. At the rear, there is a small wing that was probably once used as a dairy. The interior has been somewhat modernised, concealing much of the frame, but it still features chamfered joists in the hall and two first-floor rooms. There is evidence of original windows in the former gable end wall, including one with incomplete cavetto mullions. The roof over the 16th-century section has clasped and butt purlins.

Local climate

Street Farmhouse 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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