Valley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. A C17 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Valley Farmhouse

WRENN ID
quiet-glass-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Valley Farmhouse, Blacksmiths Lane, Coddenham, IP6 9TX
OS grid reference
TM 131 545
Coordinates
52.14827, 1.11438
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Valley Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century, with a likely earlier core. It underwent significant remodelling around 1830. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with plaintiled roofs, and features ridge tiles decorated with fleurs-de-lys. It has axial chimneys made of red brick and stands two storeys high with attics. The layout follows a three-cell cross passage entrance plan. The windows are early 19th century small-pane sashes. A 19th-century gabled entrance porch, covered with plaintiles, has bargeboards with undulating soffits and a 20th-century half-glazed panelled door. The higher rear wing was added in the late 17th century, while the main range was likely re-roofed and provided with attics. A rear outshut also dates from the 17th century, although some of the wall framing in the main range appears to be from the 16th century.

Local climate

Valley 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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