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

Robson's Farmhouse

WRENN ID
knotted-buttress-indigo
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
Robson's Farmhouse, Nethergate Street, Hopton
OS grid reference
TL 989 792
Coordinates
52.37487, 0.92091
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Robson's Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse with two storeys and a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The building is timber-framed, rendered on the sides, and faced in white brick from around 1880, when a porch was added. There is also a white brick lean-to along the rear wall. The main roof is covered with black-glazed single Roman tiles, while the enclosed porch has pantiles. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft. The farmhouse features small-paned sash windows in flush frames, some of which may have been reused from an earlier phase of the house. The main beams in both principal ground-floor rooms have chamfer and complex scroll-stops, which are placed well within the line of the walls, with no evidence of reuse. To the east of the chimney stack, the open fireplace has a wide brick arch, and in the same room, there is a blocked original mullioned window in the gable wall. In front of the stack, within the lobby, there is a late 19th-century stair with turned balusters in an 18th-century style.

Local climate

Robson's 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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