Ark Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Farmhouse.
Ark Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- last-porch-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ark Farmhouse, Chedburgh Road, Whepstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 815 587
- Coordinates
- 52.19713, 0.65495
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ark Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from 1612, as indicated by a plaque on the chimney. It has two storeys and a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The building is timber-framed and rendered, featuring scratched oblong panels. The roof is slated and has an axial chimney made of red brick, which displays a saw-tooth pattern on its flues and has a square base with an inset central panel that also bears the date 1612. This date likely refers to both the chimney and possibly the house itself. The farmhouse has mid-20th century casements and a 19th-century two-storey entrance porch with a gabled slated roof. The upper floor of the porch has a hood-moulded casement, and there is an open 20th-century slated canopy supported by timber posts.
Local climate
Ark 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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