Carol House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1995. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Carol House
- WRENN ID
- small-buttress-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1995
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Carol House, Watton Road, Swaffham, PE37 8DA
- OS grid reference
- TF 830 070
- Coordinates
- 52.63035, 0.70381
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carol House is a farmhouse dated 1730, constructed of red brick laid in English bond, with a roof covered in corrugated concrete tiles. The building has two storeys and a dormer attic, featuring a three-window range. The central entrance consists of a half-glazed 20th-century door beneath a five-vaned fanlight, framed by a timber doorcase with a hood. The windows are all late 20th-century, with tripartite sash windows on either side of the door and repeated on the first floor, along with a 2/2 unhorned sash window positioned between them. The gabled roof includes one late 20th-century flat-topped dormer fitted with a two-light casement and three roof-lights. There are internal gable-end stacks on both the east and west sides. The west gable displays a date plaque reading "PL 1730." A full-length, two-storey outshut was added to the rear in the late 18th century, featuring late 20th-century details. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Carol 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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