Elms Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Farmhouse.
Elms Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sacred-outpost-hazel
- 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
- Elms Farmhouse, the Street, Great Barton
- OS grid reference
- TL 893 672
- Coordinates
- 52.27062, 0.77356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elms Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been divided into two sections, with the south-western side still associated with the farm. It features two storeys and attics, built on a basic three-cell plan. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a plain tiled roof.
An internal chimney stack has a large panelled shaft and a heavy oversailing head that is corbelled out over a rectangular panelled base, adorned with dentil decoration. The building has four windows on both the ground and first storeys, consisting of casements with transoms; three of these are three-light windows, and one is a two-light window. There are three gabled dormers with plain barge-boards and small-paned casement windows.
The farmhouse includes two matching doors with flush panels, plain surrounds, and slightly curved pediments. Inside, little framing is exposed, but there is a fine dog-leg stair with turned balusters and rounded finials located in an original small wing behind the chimney stack, which rises to the first storey only.
Local climate
Elms 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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