Chalk Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. House.
Chalk Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- under-mortar-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chalk Farmhouse, High Street, Lakenheath
- OS grid reference
- TL 713 829
- Coordinates
- 52.41806, 0.51845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chalk Farmhouse is a house and surgery dating from around 1700, with a core that dates back to the 15th century and alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building stands two storeys high and has three windows. It is constructed from flint and brick rubble, featuring quoins made of gault brick. The roof is hipped and covered with plain tiles, and there is a rear chimney made of red brick. The windows have segmental arches made of gault brick and consist mainly of small-pane sashes, typically with three lights. The entrance door, which is partly glazed and panelled, dates from the 19th century and is framed by an architrave and a gabled canopy supported by carved brackets.
At the rear of the front range, there is a small section of a substantial 15th-century house made of clunch with limestone dressings. This part includes an open fireplace on each floor, flanked by a garderobe to the right and a newel staircase to the left. Approximately eight doorways remain, some of which still feature 4-centred arched heads, along with a stone mullioned window. While the front range may have a 15th-century core, all visible features, including a well-preserved oak-framed roof with butt-purlins and massive principals, are from the late 17th century. The rear wing was largely rebuilt in the 18th century and again in the mid-20th century.
Local climate
Chalk 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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