Sparks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. Farmhouse.
Sparks Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-groin-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sparks Farmhouse, 55, Sparkes Farm, Eriswell, IP27 9BB
- OS grid reference
- TL 720 789
- Coordinates
- 52.38121, 0.52652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sparks Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with alterations made in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It has a three-cell plan and stands two storeys high. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, while the projecting wing on the right features a 19th-century parapet gable made of flint and brick rubble. The roof is thatched with clasped purlins and has axial and gable chimneys made of red brick. The farmhouse includes 19th-century casement windows and boarded entrance doors. At the time of the survey, the left-hand cell was in the process of demolition.
Local climate
Sparks 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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