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

Goulders Farmhouse

WRENN ID
winter-hall-equinox
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
Goulders Farmhouse, the Street, Wingfield
OS grid reference
TM 228 771
Coordinates
52.34724, 1.27113
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Goulder's Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse located in Wingfield. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure topped with a plaintiled roof, spanning two storeys and an attic. The main range consists of two cells, with a lower cross-wing to the right that originally extended further to the rear. The building has casement windows, primarily from the 18th century, including three-light mullion and transom windows on the ground floor that lack glazing bars. The entrance is through a plank door, and there are two gabled dormers.

At the junction of the main range and the cross-wing, there is an axial stack with three truncated shafts arranged in a sawtooth pattern, and a square inset panel at the base. To the left, a smaller 19th-century stack is positioned forward of the roof ridge. The left gable end features a jettied first floor and an overhanging gable, with the bressummer and tie beam intricately carved with geometric patterns and supported by carved brackets. Below the jetty, the exposed studs reveal an original eight-light mullioned window.

The interior has been modernised but retains some exposed structural elements, along with original mullioned windows or traces of them. A mid-20th-century stair is located in a rear addition, and a reused beam with red ochre colouring can be found in the roof of the cross-wing.

Local climate

Goulders Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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