Church Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Church Farm House
- WRENN ID
- broken-corner-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church Farm House, Little Green, Thrandeston, IP21 4BX
- OS grid reference
- TM 115 764
- Coordinates
- 52.34487, 1.10425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has steeply pitched roofs covered with pantiles. The building has a three-cell cross passage plan with a two-bay service wing at the rear left, forming an L shape. It stands two storeys high with attics.
The entrance to the cross passage is located towards the left and is accessed through a late 19th-century brick and stained glass gabled porch that includes bargeboards. The windows are also from the 19th century, featuring part opening casements with 6 and 9 panes on the ground floor, some of which have leaded lights, while the first floor has 2 and 3-light windows. The eaves are boxed.
There is an axial ridge stack situated between the hall and parlour, slightly right of centre, with a large base that is broached to three separate octagonal shafts, each with moulded bases. The left return of the building leads to the slightly lower service wing, which has an entrance in the rear bay and 3-light casements. The main range has a slightly higher ridge with an original stack that has been rebuilt at the cap. The rear gable end features a 19th-century external stack, with exposed plates and purlins.
At the rear, there is an entrance behind the stack that leads to a half-glazed, half-panelled door, along with French windows that open into the parlour. The inner angle of the forward section of the rear wing is broader to accommodate stairs, and there is a lean-to outshut addition.
Inside, the parlour and hall have triple ovolo moulded axial binding beams, while the parlour features a hollow and ovolo moulded four-centred brick fireplace arch. The service rooms have stop-chamfered binding beams. On the first floor, there are ovolo moulded cross axial binding beams, jowled posts, close studding with tension braces, and cambered tie beams supporting a double butt purlin roof with collars and windbraces. Additionally, part of a moat lies to the south of the house.
Local climate
Church 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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