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

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tenth-cobalt-winter
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, Chapel Road, Mendlesham, IP14 5SQ
OS grid reference
TM 105 658
Coordinates
52.25066, 1.08285
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a former farmhouse with a late 18th-century front range and work from the 16th to 17th centuries at the rear. It has a double pile plan, with the front range constructed of colourwashed brick featuring a brick dentil eaves cornice and parapet gables with tumbling. The rear is timber framed and plastered. The roof is slated at the front and pantiled at the rear. The building has two storeys and attics, with three windows that are inset sashes with glazing bars set under gauged brick arches; the upper windows are half-height. The ground floor windows have panelled shutters.

The entrance features a good doorway with an inset six-panel raised and fielded door, a segmental fanlight with glazing bars under a keyed arch, panelled reveals, sunk pilasters, and a broken entablature supported by console brackets on shell corbels, topped with an open pediment. There are three dormers with small-paned windows; the central dormer is shallow-gabled while the others have flat roofs. The building has red brick gable stacks.

At the rear, there is a two-cell wing with an internal stack featuring an axial shaft. Inside, there is a straight stair with stick balusters and a ramped handrail. The rear wing shows exposed studs and evidence of diamond-mullioned windows. The lower ceilings have plain joists that are exposed, set flat in the left cell and square in the right cell. The framing in the left cell is more substantial and likely older.

Local climate

Church 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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