High Green Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1988. A Medieval Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
High Green Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- under-spindle-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- High Green Farmhouse, Great Finborough, IP14 3AP
- OS grid reference
- TM 006 558
- Coordinates
- 52.16482, 0.93287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Green Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from around 1500, with alterations made in the 17th century and around 1800. It is a three-cell open hall house, standing two storeys tall, constructed of timber framing and plastered. The roof is covered with pantiles, and there is a 17th-century axial chimney made of narrow red bricks. The windows are 19th-century small-pane casements, and the entrance features an early 19th-century door with six fielded panels, set beneath an open gabled porch supported by posts, which has a Roman pantiled roof and serpentine bargeboards.
Inside, the farmhouse is a modest but well-built open hall with tension-braced close studding. There are twin service room doorways with four-centred arches, one of which has been restored. The parlour contains two diamond-mullioned windows. Although the open truss was removed from the hall in the 19th century, part of the original roof remains, featuring smoke-blackened rafters beneath the higher 19th-century roof. In the 17th century, a lintelled open fireplace was added to the parlour cell, using a lintel that was repurposed from a timber-framed chimney. The service cell was rebuilt during the 17th century.
Local climate
High Green Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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