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

Redcastle Farmhouse

WRENN ID
lapsed-paling-dawn
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
Redcastle Farmhouse, Brand Road, Pakenham
OS grid reference
TL 901 693
Coordinates
52.28918, 0.78711
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Redcastle Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. It has two storeys and attics, featuring an L-shaped plan. The structure is timber framed with a roughcast front range and plain tiled roofs. A large internal chimney stack connects the front and rear ranges, characterized by a high rectangular base and four octagonal shafts with moulded bases and corbelled caps. The front range, dating from the late 16th century, includes mid-19th century casements, with those on the ground floor having open triangular pediments above. There is also a mid-19th century fully enclosed porch. The rear range is primarily from the 15th century, with an additional storey added in the 17th century. It is plastered and features random fenestration with casements, some from the 20th century and others with old leaded panes. The farmhouse has two gabled former structures and is situated as an isolated building within a large three-sided moat.

Local climate

Redcastle 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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