Priory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1988. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Priory Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- slow-solder-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Priory Farmhouse, Priory Lane, Braiseworth, IP23 7DS
- OS grid reference
- TM 133 714
- Coordinates
- 52.2996, 1.12807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priory Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a pantiled roof. The building is designed in a two-cell, lobby entry style, with the left cell originally forming a cross-wing. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring two 18th-century three-light casement windows that were originally square-leaded, with ground floor windows that include a transom. The farmhouse has a gabled porch made of clay lump, which contains a plank door. The stack has a plain axial shaft, with the lower part made of narrow brick. There is a one-storey addition to the right that is largely from the 20th century.
Inside, the ceiling of the room to the left displays 17th-century plasterwork, featuring an ovolo cornice on each half, with Tudor rose and Fleur-de-lys motifs arranged symmetrically. There are back-to-back fireplaces on the first floor, each with four-centred brick arches. An oak newel stair leads to the upper level, and there are 17th-century cupboards beneath the lower flight that retain their original doors. The roof structure includes butt purlins, with the roof over the left cell being a later reconstruction from the 17th century.
Local climate
Priory Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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