Makins Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. Farmhouse.
Makins Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tall-step-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Makins Farmhouse, Donkey Lane, Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 873 556
- Coordinates
- 52.16706, 0.73839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Makins Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with alterations from the 17th century and a 20th-century extension. The building is two storeys high and follows a three-cell, lobby-entrance plan. It features a timber-framed structure that is rough-cast rendered, topped with an asbestos-slated roof and an axial chimney made of red brick. The windows are 20th-century casements, and there is a boarded entrance door. The timber-framing is of good quality, with unmoulded details and tension bracing at the gable end. A massive axial chimney with back-to-back open fireplaces was inserted around 1600. The roof has been rebuilt, and a rear wing was added in the mid-20th century. The farmhouse is included in the listing despite these alterations due to its good, albeit largely concealed, frame.
Local climate
Makins 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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