Roamwood Green Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. Farmhouse.
Roamwood Green Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- young-railing-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Roamwood Green Farmhouse, Debenham
- OS grid reference
- TM 158 649
- Coordinates
- 52.23999, 1.16
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Roamwood Green Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse with a north cross-wing added around 1980. The building is timber framed, mostly plastered, with part of the rear covered in roughcast render. It has a plaintiled roof, featuring old clay tiles on the front and concrete tiles on the rear. The farmhouse has a three-cell form, is two storeys tall with an attic, and has three 19th-century tripartite sash windows with glazing bars under wooden hoodmoulds. There is a mid-20th-century standard casement window on the lower left, and the lobby entry includes mid-20th-century French windows and a wide open-fronted brick porch. Additionally, there are three mid-20th-century flat-roofed dormers. The chimney stack has a plain oblong shaft, with the lower part being original and the upper part dating from the 19th century, featuring a sawtooth cap. The gables are overhanging, with the left gable displaying a moulded tie beam and evidence of a projecting first-floor window, along with two original drop-finials and one replacement. The right gable has one original drop-finial at the rear, while the rest is obscured by the 1980 addition.
Inside, some plain studding is exposed on the upper floor, with the studding in the parlour dating from the mid-20th century. The service end has chamfered joists and was originally divided axially into two, with the service partition now removed. Three rooms feature plaster ceilings with bolection-moulded cornices, each subdivided by an encased axial floor beam, likely dating from around 1700. The newel post of the first-floor stair has a knob finial, and the roof is a clasped purlin type with two-way arched wind-bracing.
Local climate
Roamwood Green Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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