Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. Farmhouse.

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
muted-truss-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 October 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Church Farmhouse, Metfield Road, Mendham
OS grid reference
TM 283 807
Coordinates
52.37708, 1.35368
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse consisting of two main sections: a 15th century part on the left and a late 16th to early 17th century parlour addition on the right. There is also a mid-20th century addition on the left that is set forward. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a pantiled roof featuring black tiles on the front. The left section has one and a half storeys, while the right section has two storeys and an attic. Most windows are mid-20th century casements, but in the medieval range, the upper part of the original hall window is visible, showcasing cavetto mullions. There is one gabled dormer. The later section includes a lobby entrance with a 19th century door that has six bolection-moulded panels and an open gabled porch supported by timber posts. An internal stack is located in the later section at the junction of the two ranges. The earlier range features a two-bay former open hall with an intact queen-post roof.

Local climate

Church 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 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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