Low Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Farmhouse.
Low Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muted-minaret-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Low Farmhouse, Dennington Road, Laxfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 291 698
- Coordinates
- 52.27918, 1.3571
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Farmhouse is a former farmhouse that has been converted into two cottages, with the right cottage remaining unmodernised. It dates from the late 16th century and features a timber frame that is plastered, while the ground floor has mostly been rebuilt in colourwashed brick. The building has a pantiled roof and stands two storeys high with an attic, arranged in a three-cell form.
The left cottage has mid-20th century small-paned casement windows and a six-panel door, while the right cottage has 19th century casements. There is an internal stack and single-storey additions at each gable end. The left cottage showcases exposed first floor studding with reversed bracing, and an arched brick fireplace in the hall chamber. The parlour in the right cottage features a bridging beam that is cased in moulded plasterwork, with the ceiling divided into four sections by plaster-moulded cross beams, each with a moulded border. Additionally, the right cottage retains the original newel stairs. The roof structure includes clasped and butt purlins, along with cranked wind-bracing.
Local climate
Low 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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