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

Dairy Farmhouse

WRENN ID
frozen-pavement-rye
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
Dairy Farmhouse, Nethergate Street, Hopton
OS grid reference
TL 986 795
Coordinates
52.37833, 0.9177
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dairy Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse that was extended and altered in the early 19th century. It has two storeys and attics, forming an L-shape. The building is timber-framed, with the front and rear walls plastered and decorated with comb-patterning, while the side walls, rear wing, and a single-storey lean-to extension along the rear wall are constructed of rubble flint with white brick quoins and dressings. The roofs are hipped and covered with plain tiles. There are two internal chimney stacks with plain white brick shafts. The farmhouse features three-light casement windows with transoms and two canted bays on the front ground storey, which have small-paned sash windows that extend above the ceiling level inside. An early 20th-century enclosed single-storey porch made of white brick is also present. Inside, there is a notable 18th-century staircase with twisted balusters, which rises in a straight flight to a galleried landing above, along with a panelled side.

Local climate

Dairy 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 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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