Prospect Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House.

Prospect Farm House

WRENN ID
long-ashlar-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1987
Type
House
Address
Prospect Farm House, Chapel Lane, Wortham
OS grid reference
TM 079 765
Coordinates
52.34724, 1.05199
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Prospect Farm House is a 17th-century house that has been converted into two dwellings. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a thatched roof. The layout consists of a three-cell cross passage plan and includes one storey with an attic. The entrance is located to the left in the original cross passage position and has a part glazed, part panelled door. There is a second entrance in the parlour bay to the right, which has a boarded door.

The house has 19th-century metal and timber frame casements with one and two lights, along with ground floor hoodboards and two two-light dormers. A filled axial ridge stack is positioned to the right of centre between the hall and parlour. The right gable end features three-light glazing bar casements and a pentice board for the attic, with exposed plates and purlins. The left end has a pantiled lean-to outshut with a boarded door at the front and two two-light windows in the attic beneath a half hipped roof. At the rear, there are two lean-to outshuts made of brick and clay lump.

Inside, much of the frame is concealed, but in the hall, there is a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam with brackets connecting the posts to the binding beam. The right-hand dwelling has not been inspected.

Local climate

Prospect Farm House 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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