Sheepcote Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. Residential.

Sheepcote Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sombre-chimney-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1974
Type
Residential
Address
Sheepcote Farmhouse, Denston
OS grid reference
TL 766 527
Coordinates
52.14465, 0.58049
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sheepcote Farmhouse is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered house. It has two storeys and features a five-window range, with 20th-century casements on the upper storey and double-hung sashes with vertical glazing bars on the ground storey. A gabled porch projects from the front of the house, and the roof is tiled, also from the 20th century.

Local climate

Sheepcote 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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