Barn at Cookley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1998. Barn. 2 related planning applications.
Barn at Cookley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- worn-bailey-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1998
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Cookley Farmhouse, Cookley Road, Eye
- OS grid reference
- TM 166 740
- Coordinates
- 52.32214, 1.17701
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Cookley Farmhouse is a late 18th-century structure featuring a three-bay threshing barn design. It is timber-framed and stands on a brick plinth, with its exterior covered in weatherboarding and topped with a corrugated iron roof. The south side has an open cart entrance, while the north side features a clay-lump transept entrance, and there are no doors present. The barn has a gabled roof. Inside, there are principal posts with knuckle braces supporting the tie beams, and the roof is constructed of rafters and two tiers of staggered butt purlins. A clay lump partition wall is located to the west.
Local climate
Barn at Cookley 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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