Fenns Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Fenns Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ghost-keep-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fenns Farmhouse, Bildeston Road, Combs, IP14 2JZ
- OS grid reference
- TM 029 556
- Coordinates
- 52.16181, 0.96604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fenns Farmhouse is a 17th century farmhouse, possibly with an earlier core, featuring a three-cell plan. It has one storey and attics, constructed from timber framing and plaster. The roof is thatched, with 19th century gabled plain-tiled dormers. There is a central 19th century chimney made of red brick. The windows include 19th and 20th century casements, as well as a 20th century splayed bay window. At the rear, there is a mid-20th century extension with a glazed panelled entrance door. Internally, some unmoulded 17th century framing is exposed, and the house was extended to the left in the 18th or early 19th century.
Local climate
Fenns Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- 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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