Fox Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. Farmhouse.

Fox Farmhouse

WRENN ID
other-moulding-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Fox Farmhouse, Wetherden
OS grid reference
TM 010 651
Coordinates
52.24785, 0.94345
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fox Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from around 1580 to 1620. It has two storeys and a three-cell plan, constructed with timber framing and plaster. The roof is covered with glazed pantiles and features an axial chimney, which was rebuilt in 19th-century red brick. At the left end of the building, there are a pair of original console brackets beneath the gable. The windows are 20th-century small-pane casements, and there is a 20th-century boarded entrance door located in a rear extension.

This farmhouse is a typical example of a three-cell house, showing evidence of a pair of service rooms with twin doorways, although all partitioning in this area has now been removed. The first-floor joists are unchamfered, and the roof has close-studding and clasped purlins. Inside, there are back-to-back open fireplaces in the hall and parlour, along with a small original arched fireplace in one chamber. A blocked diamond-mullioned window can be found in the rear wall, with evidence of additional windows throughout the building.

Local climate

Fox Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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