Green Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. A C17 Farmhouse.

Green Farmhouse

WRENN ID
noble-timber-grove
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
Green Farmhouse, Hestley Green, Thorndon
OS grid reference
TM 155 667
Coordinates
52.25712, 1.15672
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Green Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with the cross-wing possibly being older. It features a three-cell main range and a service cross-wing to the west. The building is timber framed, mostly plastered, with part of the service wing faced or rebuilt in colourwashed brick, and it has a thatched roof. The farmhouse is two storeys high, with an attic only in the parlour cell.

The north face of the main range has mostly 19th-century casement windows and a mid-20th-century entrance addition with a side door. The south side features mainly mid-20th-century standard casements and a small gabled porch. There is a large single-pane window on the east gable end facing the road. The service wing has various openings, including one slatted window in the north gable end. Each range has an internal stack with a rendered shaft.

Inside, the farmhouse has been modernised, with plain joists set flat in the ground floor rooms and an altered newel stair. The main members of the frame are visible on the upper floor, but there is no studding. A cambered tie beam spans the hall chamber. The roof is of a very regular form, featuring clasped purlins and almost straight wind braces only in the end bays. The service wing has been significantly altered, especially on the ground floor, and the stack is a later addition. The roof of the service wing has clasped purlins and includes a few re-used medieval rafters.

Local climate

Green 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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