Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1984. House.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- former-stone-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church House, Silver Street, Besthorpe
- OS grid reference
- TM 062 958
- Coordinates
- 52.52184, 1.03925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House is a house dating from the mid 17th century. It is constructed of colourwashed brick and features a pantiled roof. The building has two storeys and a central door that is located behind a mid 20th century sloping porch. The windows have architraves, and the upper floor windows include aprons. There are renewed cross casements, a sash window to the left of the porch with glazing bars, and a casement window to the right. An interrupted string course runs above the ground floor windows. The facade is enhanced by pilaster strips that carry rounded capital heads. An oval window is located on the north side of the house. The roof is gabled with a bell base and has a ridge stack positioned over the door.
At the rear, there is a porch with a shaped gable added in 1899. The ground floor has two casement windows, while the first floor features three, all from the 19th century and set under segmental heads. An early 20th century extension is present on the south side. The north side has a shaped gable with an internal stack and two oval windows on the first floor and two in the attic, with the first-floor windows being keyed. The pilaster strips of the facade continue to the close gable. Inside, the structure is partly timber framed, with a dining room that includes a bridging beam and wall plate adorned with ogival mouldings and triple diamond stops. The joists feature tongue and groove stops and sunk quadrant mouldings.
Local climate
Church House 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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