Whitefield House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. A Early Modern Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Whitefield House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-truss-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Whitefield House, Park Road, Drinkstone, IP30 9TJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 952 605
- Coordinates
- 52.2086, 0.85654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitefield House is a late 17th-century farmhouse that stands two storeys tall with attics and features four windows. It has a three-cell lobby-entrance plan and is constructed with a timber frame and pebble-dash exterior, topped with plaintiled roofs. The building includes an axial chimney, with its shaft rebuilt in 19th-century red brick. The windows are early 17th-century three-light casements with transoms, and there is a six-panelled door at the lobby-entrance, where the upper pair of panels is glazed. At the rear, there is an original one-and-a-half storey service wing.
Inside, the house showcases complete 17th-century oak framing that is extensively exposed, featuring primary-braced studding and on-edge floor joists. The roof has a two-tier butt purlin structure, incorporating many reused components from another roof of similar design. The hall contains a wide lintelled open fireplace, along with some original patterned plasterwork and a blocked original window in the rear wall. Alterations to the rear were in progress at the time of the last survey.
Local climate
Whitefield House 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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