Friars Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. A C17 Farmhouse.
Friars Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Friars Farmhouse, Thwaite Road, Thorndon
- OS grid reference
- TM 132 698
- Coordinates
- 52.28514, 1.12535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Friars Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the first half of the 17th century. It is timber framed, featuring old plasterwork on the front and left gable end, while the rest of the building is roughcast-rendered. The roof is clad in corrugated iron over thatch. The farmhouse is 1½ storeys tall and has a three-cell layout. Most of the windows are 19th century casements. The cross-entry includes a mid-20th century gabled porch with a half-glazed side door, and there is a boarded door located at the extreme right. The building has one recessed dormer and an internal stack with a rendered shaft. There are one-storey pantiled additions to the left and rear. Inside, nearly all of the frame is concealed, with plain joists set flat in the hall and parlour.
Local climate
Friars 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 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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