Church Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1961. A C15 House.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rooted-hammer-moon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, 23, High Street, Clare
- OS grid reference
- TL 769 454
- Coordinates
- 52.0795, 0.58043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a late 15th century or early 16th century timber-framed and plastered house located on the west side of High Street in Clare. The front of the building features plastered panels and stands two storeys high, with a jettied upper storey supported by brackets, which still show the remains of shafts. At the rear, there is a wing that also has a jettied upper storey with a bracket and the remains of a shaft.
On the front, the first storey includes oriel bays with mullioned and transomed casements, which are likely from the 18th century, supported by brackets. The ground storey has two 20th century bays beneath the jetty. The roof is slate on the front and tiled at the rear. Inside, the house contains some moulded beams, exposed studding, and remnants of 16th century panelling.
Church Farmhouse is part of a group that includes No 15 (The Vicarage), the wall to the Vicarage, No 16 (Galloway House), Nos 17 to 22 (consecutive), No 23 (Church Farmhouse), No 26, and The Parish Church of SS Peter and Paul.
Local climate
Church 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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