Lines Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. House.
Lines Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- inner-wattle-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lines Farmhouse, Walsham Road, Gislingham
- OS grid reference
- TM 058 710
- Coordinates
- 52.29886, 1.01717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lines Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600, with extensions from the early 18th century and alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The building features a three-cell lobby entry plan with an additional bay added to the parlour end on the right side. It stands two storeys high.
On the ground floor, the lobby entrance is now roughly central and consists of a half-glazed, half-fielded panelled door with an architrave and hoodboard. To the left, towards the service end, there is a boarded door. The ground floor has three-light part-opening metal frame casements, with hoodboards above, while the first floor features smaller windows. The added bay on the right has slightly higher eaves. An axial ridge stack is located between the hall and parlour. The left end displays exposed plates and side purlins, while the right gable end is made of 18th-century red brick, decorated with diaper patterns using flared headers, and has an internal end stack.
At the rear right, there is a short lean-to outshut made of flint and red brick, with a pantiled oven outshut located behind the stack. Inside, much of the frame is concealed, but the original parlour showcases a richly carved acanthus frieze on the fireplace bressumer, with roll-moulded borders. The building also features ogee stop-chamfered axial binding beams, a later stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam in the added bay, and cambered collars in the concealed roof.
Local climate
Lines Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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