Wrenshall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
Wrenshall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muted-spire-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wrenshall Farmhouse, Upthorpe Road, Stanton
- OS grid reference
- TL 984 720
- Coordinates
- 52.31088, 0.90905
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wrenshall Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It has two storeys and attics, constructed with a timber frame, featuring a rendered front and tile-hanging on the sides and rear. The roof is made of reed thatch. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack with four attached hexagonal shafts, which previously had a plaster date of 1603. The building has two small-paned sash windows on each storey and a lobby entrance that includes a mid-19th century enclosed porch with a shallow-pitched slate roof, fluted barge-boards, and a door with six flush panels.
The frame of the farmhouse consists of five bays, without a structural chimney bay, and the current partition walls do not align with the trusses, making the original layout unclear. It is likely that an earlier heating arrangement existed before the brick stack was added. Main beams and posts are visible, along with framing in one upper room at the north end. The structure appears to be of a single date. The roof features lightweight construction, with clasped side purlins, diminished principals, and remnants of windbraces. At the rear, there is a small timber-framed wing with an end chimney stack, which is encased in white brick from the 19th century, raised, and slated, and it retains parts of a steep-pitched earlier roof near the stack.
Local climate
Wrenshall 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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