Meadow Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

Meadow Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sharp-step-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Meadow Farmhouse, Hepworth
OS grid reference
TL 976 755
Coordinates
52.34281, 0.89953
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Meadow Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the 16th century. It has two storeys and features a three-cell lobby entrance plan. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof. An internal chimney stack has three attached square chimneys, which have been rebuilt using old bricks. The house has three-light cast iron casement windows, with the ground storey windows being larger and featuring a cross-bar and replacement square leading, while the upper storey retains old leaded panes. There is a 20th-century enclosed gabled porch with plain bargeboards.

Inside, the framing is exposed, showcasing widely spaced substantial studs and main beams with a 3-inch chamfer. There has been considerable reconstruction of the fireplaces. The service end of the house may have been divided into two, as indicated by a replaced ceiling and the remains of doorways with arched spandrels, some of which are fake. At the west end, there is a high, seven-light window on the ground storey in the gable end wall, featuring hollow-chamfer mouldings on the replacement mullions, and a corresponding window on the upper floor with diamond mullion housings. The front wall has a blocked four-light window with diamond mullions still in place. A newel stair is located to the front of the stack within the lobby.

Local climate

Meadow 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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