Gate Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1954. Farmhouse.
Gate Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- eternal-terrace-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1954
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Gate Farmhouse, Elmswell Road, Great Ashfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 995 664
- Coordinates
- 52.26043, 0.92229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gate Farmhouse is a former farmhouse, likely from the 16th century, with early 17th-century alterations. It has one storey and attics, with a short two-storey crosswing facing the road, which is probably a 17th-century addition. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring large moulded panels in an 18th-century style, which were reproduced around 1980. The roofs are covered with plain tiles, and there are 20th-century raking casement dormers.
The farmhouse has a central 17th-century chimney made of red brick, which has recessed corners on the oblong shaft. Inside the crosswing, there is an internal gable chimney with a similar shaft. The windows include 20th-century casements and some restored 16th and 17th-century mullioned windows. On the south side, there is a short wing added in the early 17th century, which jetties at the first floor and shows exposed joists and knees. Above this wing is an oriel window with a coved cill, possibly restored in the 20th century. The oversailing gable tiebeam features turned drop finials. The entrance door, which is from the 20th century, has an arched head. This wing seems to have originally been at the back of the house, with the main entrance front located on the north side. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
Gate Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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