Fox Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. A C16/C17 House.
Fox Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-render-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fox Farmhouse, Hawkedon Road, Brockley
- OS grid reference
- TL 806 552
- Coordinates
- 52.16597, 0.64066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fox Farmhouse is a house that was originally a farmhouse and public house, dating from the late 16th century, with an extension added in the early 17th century. It features a three-cell lobby-entrance plan, is one and a half storeys high with attics, and is constructed of timber framing with a rendered finish. The roof is pantiled and includes gabled casement dormers, along with axial chimneys made of red brick. Most of the windows are 19th-century casements, and there is a 20th-century lean-to porch with a flush entrance door. Inside, the timber framing is exposed, and there are open back-to-back fireplaces in the hall and former parlour. The roof has clasped purlins. An additional cell was added to the east end beyond the parlour in the 17th century. The building was known as the Fox and Hounds public house around 1900 and is currently in poor condition.
Local climate
Fox 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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