Abbey Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. Farmhouse.
Abbey Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scattered-span-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Abbey Hall Farmhouse, Buxhall Road, Great Finborough, Stowmarket, IP14 3AU
- OS grid reference
- TM 011 574
- Coordinates
- 52.17854, 0.94009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Hall Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the early 18th century, with the rear range possibly being older. The building is timber-framed and plastered, while the gable walls of the main range are constructed from red brick with random burnt headers. It features parapet gables with internal end chimneys, each equipped with a pair of diagonally-set square flues. The roofs are covered with plaintiles, and there are three notable early 18th-century lead-roofed gabled dormers, each adorned with moulded wooden pediments and cornices, along with casements that have leaded lights. The farmhouse has two storeys and attics, with five windows that include small-pane sashes from the late 18th or early 19th century. The early 18th-century doorway has a Gibbs surround and a moulded pediment, leading to a pair of three-panelled doors that were renewed in the 20th century.
At the rear, there is a 1½ storey wing that is also timber-framed and plastered, featuring a coved eaves cornice and a concrete plaintiled roof. This wing has two 19th-century axial chimneys made of red brick, one of which has triple diagonally-set square shafts and a sawtooth base. There are three 19th-century gabled dormers, with one containing a small-pane sash and the others having small-pane casements. The building includes 18th-century cross-casements, one of which was remodelled in the 19th century. Additionally, there is a 19th-century six-panelled entrance door with glazed upper panels. A further single-storey service wing at the rear dates from the 18th century or earlier. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
Abbey Hall 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 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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