Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-brick-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Farmhouse, Kenninghall, NR16 2DS
- OS grid reference
- TM 036 847
- Coordinates
- 52.42292, 0.99405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600. It is timber framed with roughcast wattle and daub and has a thatched roof. The building has one storey and a dormer attic, with a 20th-century brick porch located to the right of the center under the thatch. There are three 18th-century casement windows on the left and one on the right, arranged irregularly. The gabled roof features two central gabled dormers, both with bargeboards and 19th-century casement windows. The house has two symmetrically placed ridge stacks.
Inside, the layout consists of four cells with thin scantling framing. The dining room contains a 17th-century inserted fireplace that includes some original brick and nogging, with tongue stops on the bridging beam. There is an arched doorway to the right of the stack that is later than the 17th century. The lounge has a similar fireplace, a chamfered bridging beam, and a blocked four-light diamond mullion window. The eastern room also features blocked mullion windows and tension bracing in the corners. The first-floor tie beams have been cut for doors.
Local climate
Old Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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