Amara Tam and Brome Villa is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1988. Former farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Amara Tam and Brome Villa
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-fireplace-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1988
- Type
- Former farmhouse
- Address
- Amara Tam and Brome Villa, the Street, Brome and Oakley, IP23 8AF
- OS grid reference
- TM 152 767
- Coordinates
- 52.34611, 1.15843
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Amara Tam and Brome Villa is a former farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings. The building consists of two sections: the left section, known as Amara Tam, dates back to the 16th century and was modernised in the mid-20th century. The right section, Brome Villa, is likely older but has undergone alterations. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with roofs primarily covered in pantiles; Amara Tam features double Roman tiles on the front slope.
The building is two storeys high, with part of it having an attic. Amara Tam includes mid-20th century casement windows and a boarded door. In the gable end, there are two original windows with cavetto mullions, and a gable stack is located at the junction with the adjacent range. Inside, there is good closely-spaced studding and exposed chamfered-joist ceilings, along with a roof that has one row of clasped purlins. Brome Villa features 19th century casement windows and a boarded door with two glazed panels, as well as small drip moulds above the ground floor openings. An 18th century external stack is present against the gable end, while the timbers inside are largely concealed.
Local climate
Amara Tam and Brome Villa 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 — 2 transactions since 2017
- 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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