Snape Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Snape Farm House

WRENN ID
lost-bonework-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Snape Farm House, Bury Road, Rickinghall Inferior
OS grid reference
TM 029 752
Coordinates
52.33812, 0.97714
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Snape Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 17th century, possibly with earlier origins, and was refronted and re-roofed in the 19th century. The structure features a timber frame that is plastered, with a red brick front and a black glazed pantiled roof. It has a three-cell lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high with an attic. The entrance is located to the right of centre and consists of a part-glazed six-panelled door. The windows are three-light glazing bar casements on the ground floor, with segmental heads, and there is a white brick course at the eaves. A central two-light box dormer is present on the roof.

The house has a large axial ridge stack to the right of centre, positioned between the hall and parlour, with a base that rises well above the ridge and features three conjoined hexagonal shafts. There is an internal service stack at the left end and two-light casements on the right end. At the rear, there are mixed glazing bar casements and another two-light box dormer.

Inside, much of the frame is concealed, but on the left or service end, there is a post of large scantling with a mortice that may have been for an early arched brace, along with stop-chamfered cross beams and axial binding beams. In the parlour, there is a bar stop-chamfered axial binding beam. Additionally, a lean-to outshut is attached to the service end, which connects to a 19th-century outbuilding made of flint and red brick, featuring a hipped pantiled roof and two doors on the brick front.

Local climate

Snape Farm House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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