Elm Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. A C19 Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Elm Farmhouse

WRENN ID
outer-finial-sorrel
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
Elm Farmhouse, Stowmarket Road, Stowupland, IP14 4DS
OS grid reference
TM 065 594
Coordinates
52.19482, 1.02034
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elm Farmhouse is a former farmhouse that dates from the mid 16th century, early 17th century, and early 19th century. It consists of two sections. The front section, built in the early 19th century, features plastered brick, with the lower section and side walls painted instead of plastered. It has a slated roof with gable chimneys made of gault brick. The building is two storeys high and has three windows, which are small-pane sashes with flush frames. The ground floor windows have boarded shutters. The entrance door has two tall beaded panels, a square fanlight, and a flat canopy supported by brackets.

Behind this, the earlier house was constructed in two stages, from the mid 16th century and early 17th century. This section has a three-cell plan, with the service cell on the left being an addition from the 17th century. It is also two storeys tall, timber-framed, and plastered, with a thatched roof that is hipped at the right end. There is an axial chimney made of red brick from the 16th or 17th century. The building features various 19th and 20th-century casements. The 16th-century section showcases good framing, including close-studding and chamfered floor joists, with pyramid chamfer stops on the binding beam in the hall. It has a clasped purlin roof and a large cambered lintel above the parlour fireplace on the right. The 17th-century framing is complete but plain and of slightly lesser quality.

Local climate

Elm Farmhouse 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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