Valley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. Farmhouse.

Valley Farmhouse

WRENN ID
dreaming-shingle-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 October 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Valley Farmhouse, Christmas Lane, Metfield
OS grid reference
TM 304 807
Coordinates
52.37655, 1.38468
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Valley Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 16th century, with likely 18th-century additions at the service end. It features a timber frame with modern roughcast render and a pantiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, originally designed in a three-cell form. There are four windows with mid-20th-century small-paned casements. At the front, there is a mid-20th-century gabled entrance addition that includes a glazed door and similar windows on either side. Inside, there is a heavy internal stack and a later stack to the left, situated between the original service end and the 18th-century addition. Much of the good quality framing and floor structure is exposed, including one blocked diamond-mullioned window and evidence of others. The storey posts in the parlour have moulded heads, and the later addition is framed with re-used timbers, some of which are fire-damaged.

Local climate

Valley 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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