Blackthorpe Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. House.

Blackthorpe Farmhouse

WRENN ID
steep-garret-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1985
Type
House
Address
Blackthorpe Farmhouse, Rushbrooke with Rougham
OS grid reference
TL 902 632
Coordinates
52.23421, 0.78454
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blackthorpe Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a T-shaped form, dating from the 17th century. It features a two-storey timber-framed range aligned east-west, which is encased in colour-washed 19th-century brick. There is also a late 18th-century range aligned north-south, with two storeys and attics. This range has colour-washed brick on the ground storey, rubble flint on the side wall, and a timber-framed and rendered upper storey. Both ranges are topped with 20th-century plaintiles.

The principal front, now the garden front facing east, includes a former central entrance door that is located inside a large semi-circular Edwardian conservatory with a conical plaintiled roof. There is a small-paned sash window in a flush frame on each side of the conservatory, along with four similar windows on the first storey. A dormer features a lead-covered segmental-arched roof and cheeks. The older range has small-paned sash windows in cased frames with arched heads. There is a 20th-century gable entrance, and along the south side, there is a single-storey 18th-century lean-to with square-leaded casement windows.

Local climate

Blackthorpe Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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