Street Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Farmhouse.
Street Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallow-steel-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Street Farmhouse, High Street, Thorndon
- OS grid reference
- TM 142 694
- Coordinates
- 52.28115, 1.139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Street Farmhouse is a former farmhouse, mainly dating from the early 15th and 16th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof, and has 1½ storeys and an attic. The building has a three-cell layout with a former open hall and features various casement windows. To the right, there are two diamond-mullioned windows, with the ground floor window having replacement mullions. A small canted bay with mid-20th century windows is present on the ground floor. The 19th-century doorway has an architrave with panelled jambs and a pedimented cornice, leading to a four-panel door. There are three gabled dormers on the roof and an internal stack with a square rendered shaft.
Internally, much of the 15th-century framing is concealed. The front wall includes an original cross-entry doorway with a two-centred arch. The open truss features a cambered tie beam with intact but concealed braces, an octagonal crown-post with a moulded cap, and four almost straight braces, with the base of the post concealed. The coupled rafters and collar purlin are intact and heavily sooted. The remainder of the structure appears to be largely from the 16th century. The parlour contains a bridging beam and closely spaced joists, all featuring a single cavetto mould. There is an intact open fireplace, and the end wall of the parlour displays remains of a 16th to 17th-century painting on plaster, depicting a figure carrying a sword and staff in red with black lining.
In the chamber above, a pair of inserted upper crucks supports an attic floor above eaves level. The 16th-century inserted hall ceiling has an axial bridging beam with broach stop-chamfers, with the joists concealed. A plank and muntin screen against the cross-passage may be contemporary. Additionally, a stack has been inserted against the outside of the upper end wall of the hall. The house has been extended approximately 3 meters beyond the end of the parlour, likely in the 18th century.
Local climate
Street Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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