Burts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. Farmhouse.
Burts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dusk-obsidian-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Burts Farmhouse, the Street, Norton
- OS grid reference
- TL 961 657
- Coordinates
- 52.25519, 0.87188
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burts Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid 17th century, with a core that originates from the mid 16th century. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell cross-entry plan that includes a hall range with two crosswings. The structure is timber-framed, encased, and partly underbuilt in early 19th century red brick, topped with a concrete plaintiled roof.
There is an axial chimney, which has been rebuilt in early 19th century red brick, featuring a square panel at the base adorned with saltire patterned terracotta tiles and three octagonal shafts. To the right, there is a 17th century external chimney made of red brick, with a similar rebuilt upper section from the 19th century that has two shafts. The windows are early 19th century small-pane sashes with cambered heads and small panes.
The farmhouse has a six-panelled door located at the cross-entry position, and a 19th century gabled porch supported by posts with latticework infill. The hall range retains its mid 16th century core, characterized by a multiple-roll moulded binding beam and roll-moulded joists. The right-hand crosswing was added in the 17th century, and all roofs have been rebuilt in a clasped purlin form, while the left-hand wing may also have a 16th century core. Additionally, there is a lower service wing at the rear left, which dates from the 16th or 17th century and has undergone significant remodelling in the 19th century.
Local climate
Burts 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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