Dairy Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. Farmhouse.

Dairy Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 February 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Dairy Farmhouse, Necton Road, Little Dunham
OS grid reference
TF 866 130
Coordinates
52.68271, 0.76025
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dairy Farmhouse is a former farmhouse that is now empty. It mainly dates from the 18th century, with a 17th-century gable-end and some re-used masonry from the 12th century. The building is constructed of brick, galletted flint, and re-used ashlar, topped with a pantiled roof. The 17th-century house features a returned brick gable-end, which was likely connected to a timber frame that was later replaced with masonry and extended to the rear in the 18th century. There is a 20th-century side extension that is not of special interest.

The farmhouse has two storeys and three bays on its 18th-century facade, which includes 20th-century metal windows with brick dressings. The central front door is topped by a skewback arch with a cambered soffit. A sawtooth cornice decorates the top of the facade. The 17th-century gable-end is made of small bricks laid in English bond, featuring a stack and one surviving moulded gable corbel at the rear. The re-used 12th-century ashlar is likely from St. Mary's in Great Dunham and includes one piece of chevron in the outshut quoins and some sections of shafts on the main facade. There is a stack on the former eastern gable-end. Inside, there are some early 19th-century reeded fire surrounds and some re-used timbers in the roof.

Local climate

Dairy Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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