The Elms Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Farmhouse.
The Elms Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pale-minaret-jay
- 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
- The Elms Farmhouse, Earl Stonham
- OS grid reference
- TM 089 589
- Coordinates
- 52.18945, 1.05549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elms Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It has a two-cell lobby-entrance plan and stands two storeys high with attics. The structure is timber framed and plastered, topped with a concrete plaintiled roof that features an original axial chimney made of red brick. The farmhouse has mid-20th century small-pane casements and a boarded entrance door located in a gabled clay-plaintiled porch. The framing is complete and well-exposed, showcasing good close-studwork. Inside, there are chamfered first and attic floor joists laid flat, brick arched fireplaces in the parlour and the chamber above, and a full-height newel staircase. There were alterations made to the rear of the building around 1970.
Local climate
The Elms 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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