The Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. A C15 Farmhouse.
The Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scarred-bracket-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Old Farmhouse, Home Farm Lane, Pakenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 925 672
- Coordinates
- 52.26973, 0.8207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Farmhouse is a former home farm to Nether Hall, dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. It has an L-shaped plan and stands two storeys tall. The building is timber-framed, with all timbers exposed, and features plaintiled roofs. There are two internal chimney stacks: one on the extreme left and the other on the right, each with four barrel shafts on a high rectangular base. The windows are mid-20th century small-paned casements, and there are two blocked original mullioned windows on the left. The entrance includes a 20th-century door and porch. Inside, there is evidence of a former open hall, including a ground floor ceiling with moulded joists.
Local climate
The Old 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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