Place Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Farmhouse.
Place Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stark-corner-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Place Farmhouse, Ixworth Thorpe Road, Bardwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 936 737
- Coordinates
- 52.32722, 0.84015
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Place Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that stands two storeys high with attics. The building features a timber frame, with a red brick front from the mid-19th century and plastered panels on the sides and rear. It has a plaintiled roof adorned with mid-19th century carved barge-boards on the gables. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack with a plain shaft and a lobby entrance. The farmhouse has three-light casement windows with arched heads and two gabled dormers that have barge-boards matching those on the roof. There is a 20th-century brick porch at the front. At the rear, there is possibly an older two-storey timber-framed and plastered cross-wing. The farmhouse is situated in an isolated position.
Local climate
Place 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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