Railway Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Railway Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pitched-iron-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Railway Farmhouse, Fen Road, Scarning, NR19 2LJ
- OS grid reference
- TF 976 122
- Coordinates
- 52.67153, 0.92149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Railway Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century and later. It features a pebble dashed timber frame and a thatched roof. This is a lobby entrance type farmhouse with a blocked lobby doorway and is one and a half storeys tall. The facade includes four three-light casement windows and a small square window near the lobby. There is a central axial stack. The building has modern extensions added to the side and rear. Inside, there are spinal bridging joists with ogee stops, a blocked winding stair beside the stack, and one open fireplace with a timber bressumer.
Local climate
Railway 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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