Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. House.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- winding-alcove-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, Church Road, Bradfield St. Clare
- OS grid reference
- TL 909 578
- Coordinates
- 52.18572, 0.79144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a house from the late 17th century, featuring a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. It has one and a half storeys with attics and is constructed with a timber frame that is rendered. The roof is thatched and includes eyebrow casement dormers. There is an axial chimney made of red brick with a saw-tooth pattern on the shaft. The windows are small-pane casements from the 20th century. Additionally, there is a 20th-century, one-storey thatched gabled entrance porch that has a boarded and battened door.
Local climate
Church Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
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