Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-threshold-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, the Street, Horham, IP21 5DY
- OS grid reference
- TM 209 725
- Coordinates
- 52.30634, 1.23985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse consisting of two parts: a 15th-century hall range on the right and a parlour addition from around 1600 on the left. At the rear of the hall range, there is a 19th-century brick lean-to. The building is timber framed and plastered. The roof over the hall range features plain tiles at the front and double Roman tiles at the rear, while the parlour has double Roman tiles at the front and pantiles at the rear. The hall range is one and a half stories tall, and the parlour is two stories. There are various old casement windows, and each section has a 20th-century door. The stack, located at the junction of the two sections, has an old shaft with an inset panel that includes a sawtooth course of brickwork. The interior remains unmodernised, with the hall range featuring an arch-braced cambered tie beam above the former open hall. Although the tie beam has been cut through at the center, it likely once supported a crown-post. There is a low inserted floor with chamfered joists set flat. The parlour addition retains its original frame and newel stair, along with many 17th-century doors. The roof spaces have not been examined.
Local climate
Church Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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