Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Farmhouse.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- secret-passage-lichen
- 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
- Church Farmhouse, the Street, Thorndon
- OS grid reference
- TM 142 696
- Coordinates
- 52.28361, 1.13906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse with medieval origins that was largely rebuilt around 1600 as a three-cell house. It has a later in-line service addition to the left (west). The building is timber framed, with the front plastered and designed to imitate ashlar, while the gable ends are finished in roughcast render, one of which is dated 1909. The roof is pantiled and the house has one and a half storeys, featuring three 20th-century casement windows. There is a lobby entrance with a lean-to porch and a glazed four-panel door, along with two catslide dormers that have older casement windows.
Inside, there is an internal stack with a tall oblong shaft and a small square-shafted stack at the former gable end to the left. The parlour cell has full-height studding exposed, but this is rare elsewhere in the house. Many of the timbers used in the construction are re-used. The parlour chamber contains two diamond-mullioned windows. The service end features some heavy square joists, likely medieval, while the hall has chamfered joists and the parlour has plain joists. The hall fireplace includes some re-used stonework, and the opposite fireplace in the parlour has a three-centred brick arch. There is a straight stair at the lower end of the hall, which is a 19th or 20th-century addition. The roof timbers are concealed.
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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