Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. A Late C16/early C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
dark-lime-heath
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
Church Farmhouse, Church Lane, Occold, IP23 7PR
OS grid reference
TM 156 710
Coordinates
52.2949, 1.1614
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with alterations and additions from the 18th century and later. It features a long main range with a service cross-wing on the left and an additional gable on the right. The building is timber framed and mostly covered in roughcast render, with a plaintiled roof, except for the outer slope of the service wing, which is pantiled. The farmhouse has two storeys and an attic, with both gables supported on plain brackets. The facade includes a moulded eaves cornice and various casement windows from the 20th century. A central two-storey canted bay is present, along with a flat-roofed ground floor addition to the left that has mid-20th century French windows. To the right, there is a late 19th-century canted bay featuring a nine-paned sash window. The entrance door is from the mid-20th century, and there is one flat-roofed dormer with a mid-20th century standard window. Inside, there are two internal stacks with plain oblong shafts, but the interior has been considerably altered, with very few timbers exposed. The parlour contains a heavy wooden dentil cornice dating from the mid-18th century.

Local climate

Church 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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