Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Farmhouse.

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
rough-basalt-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1955
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Church Farmhouse, Church Road, Barningham
OS grid reference
TL 968 768
Coordinates
52.35441, 0.88884
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 15th century, with extensions from the late 18th to early 19th century. It has a basic two-cell plan and now features a T-shaped form, with parts that are two storeys and parts that are one-and-a-half storeys. The building is timber framed and rendered, with old roughcast and a thatched roof.

The main range has a half-hipped roof to the south and was originally half-hipped at both ends, while the cross-wing is gabled. An internal chimney stack with a plain shaft is positioned near the south end of the front. The farmhouse has three-light casement windows with a single bar on both ranges, and there is one gabled dormer with a plain tiled roof. At the south end, there is an old three-light upper casement window featuring square-leaded panes and crown glass.

Entry to the farmhouse is through the angle between the two ranges, which has a small thatched porch over it, leading into a passageway that forms part of one bay of the two-bay hall. This hall was originally open to the roof but now has a plain inserted beam-and-joist ceiling. The roof features plain clasped purlins and is smoke-blackened over the former hall area. A service-end partition is visible from the first floor, with the inserted chimney stack against it.

Local climate

Church 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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