Village Farm is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. A C17 Farmhouse.

Village Farm

WRENN ID
lone-granite-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 January 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Village Farm, the Street, Market Weston
OS grid reference
TL 985 776
Coordinates
52.36091, 0.91426
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Village Farm is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It features a timber-framed structure with plastered panels of comb-pargetting and a thatched roof. The building has two storeys and an attic in part, following a basic three-cell lobby-entrance plan. An 18th-century wing extends to the east, along with a single-storey lean-to that has a pantiled roof on part of the east side. The northern bay of the main range is also an 18th-century addition.

Inside, there are two internal chimney-stacks, one of which has three detached square shafts. The farmhouse has various late 19th-century casement windows, including three-light and two-light designs. A fully-enclosed late 19th-century porch made of white brick features a gabled fishscale slate roof and corbelled eaves, with a boarded door in an arched surround.

The interior displays plain, widely-spaced studding, with the central room showcasing an exposed timber ceiling that has a chamfered main beam and unchamfered joists set flat. The parlour at the south end features ovolo-moulding on the main beam. The chimney-stack in the kitchen appears to be original, featuring a large timber lintel, and prior to the 18th-century addition on the north end, this would have been an external stack. The roof structure includes one row of clasped purlins, principals, and a long narrow ridge.

Local climate

Village Farm 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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