Reading Green Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1988. Farmhouse.
Reading Green Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- steep-brick-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Reading Green Farmhouse, Hoxne
- OS grid reference
- TM 201 743
- Coordinates
- 52.32304, 1.22842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Reading Green Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the late 16th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a thatched roof. The building has one and a half storeys with a small attic and follows a two-cell, lobby entrance layout. There are two windows featuring 19th-century four-light casements and three gabled dormers. A 20th-century plastered gabled porch with a four-panel door has been added to the entrance.
Internally, there is an internal stack, although the exterior portion of the shaft has been rebuilt. The timber frame consists of just three bays, with some of the studding exposed on the inside. The main room on the ground floor features a long axial bridging beam with a barred stop-chamfer and plain joists. Above, the chamber has a substantially-framed cross-partition made from re-used timbers, one of which shows evidence of diamond mullions. The roof structure includes clasped purlins and two-way wind bracing, and there is an original newel stair present.
Local climate
Reading Green Farmhouse 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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