Tan Office Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1983. A C16 Farmhouse.
Tan Office Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- high-stronghold-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Tan Office Farmhouse, Tan Office Lane, Chevington
- OS grid reference
- TL 780 588
- Coordinates
- 52.19948, 0.60367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tan Office Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century. It features a hall and a cross-wing with a cross-passage entry. The building has two storeys and attics, with two windows. It is timber-framed and rendered, and the gabled cross-wing has a jettied upper floor. The roof is plaintiled and includes a gable chimney for the hall. The windows and entrance door are 20th century casements. The cross-wing, which dates from the early or mid-16th century, has close studding and blocked diamond mullioned windows. The hall was rebuilt in the mid or late 16th century and consists of two unequal bays, with an internal one-flue chimney at the upper end featuring a cambered lintel above a wide fireplace.
Local climate
Tan Office 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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