Ash Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Ash Tree Farmhouse

WRENN ID
grey-railing-hawk
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
Ash Tree Farmhouse, Benningham Green, Occold, IP23 7PJ
OS grid reference
TM 168 703
Coordinates
52.28836, 1.17772
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ash Tree Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, built in two phases, with a later 19th-century service wing added to the south. The construction is timber-framed and plastered, with a roof covered in concrete pantiles. The farmhouse has two storeys and a three-cell layout, featuring three mid-20th century windows with single panes. A 20th-century boarded door provides access. An internal stack is present, with a mid-20th century shaft. The service wing extends along the rear, constructed of red brick with a clay pantile roof. It features two storeys and original windows and a door, all with segmental arches, and a gable stack.

Inside, the hall contains a bridging beam with barred stop-chamfers. One side of the hall's joists have shallow-moulded soffits, while the other are chamfered. Plain joists are located at the service end. A cased floorbeam is found in the parlour. Only the main structural elements of the timber frame are visible on the upper floor. The house retains a good original newel stair. The roof timbers were renewed around 1960.

Local climate

Ash Tree 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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