Barley Green Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.

Barley Green Farmhouse

WRENN ID
proud-sill-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1955
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Barley Green Farmhouse, Laxfield Road, Stradbroke, IP21 5JT
OS grid reference
TM 247 736
Coordinates
52.3145, 1.29571
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Barley Green Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse located on Barley Green Road in Stradbroke, Laxfield. The building is timber framed and plastered, featuring exposed studding on the front at the first-floor level and in the left gable. The roof is covered with black pantiles at the front and plaintiles at the rear. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a three-cell layout, originally designed with a cross-entry.

The farmhouse has mainly mid-20th century square-leaded casement windows, including one ground floor window with diamond mullions. In the left gable end, there are two original windows with moulded mullions and a boarded entrance door. Inside, there is a notable interior with much exposed framing. The hall and parlour feature roll-moulded bridging beams with leaf-carved stops and chamfered joists. In the hall, the mouldings extend onto the storey posts, while the parlour's storey posts have plain chamfers with barred stops. The service cell was originally divided into two rooms on the ground floor.

A doorway leading into the parlour chamber has a four-centre arched head. The chimney breast brickwork at the parlour end shows evidence of lining. The roof structure includes clasped purlins with long shallow braces to the collars that meet at the centre, along with cranked wind braces.

Local climate

Barley Green Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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