Lawneys Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Farmhouse.
Lawneys Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- wild-tin-fern
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lawneys Farmhouse, Rushbrooke with Rougham
- OS grid reference
- TL 924 613
- Coordinates
- 52.21674, 0.81581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lawney's Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. It has two storeys and features a main range with a cross-wing. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, with roofs that are partly covered in black-glazed pantiles and partly in 20th-century plain tiles, while the cross-wing has a hipped roof. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack in the main range with two attached square shafts set diagonally. The windows are a random assortment of late 20th-century casements. Except for the roof, which was renewed in the 20th century, the frame of the cross-wing remains intact, showcasing plain, heavy joists that are set flat and unchamfered in the ground floor ceiling. The ground floor of the main range has joists set on edge and features fine complex 17th-century stops on the main beam, including double jewels. The roof is plain, supported by a single row of stepped butt purlins. The building is located in an isolated position and is semi-derelict.
Local climate
Lawneys 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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