Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1951. Farmhouse.
Manor 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
- 9 July 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse, Bradenham
- OS grid reference
- TF 944 082
- Coordinates
- 52.63727, 0.87159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the late 16th century, with extensions added in the 17th century and a refacing that occurred in the late 18th century. The original timber frame has largely been replaced with brick, and it features a black pantile roof. The west facade has a central two-storey porch and a later service wing at the rear, creating a T-shaped layout. The building has two storeys and a disused attic.
The porch includes a painted eared architrave and a moulded brick pediment above a segmentally arched entrance, which has a modern two-leaf door. Above the entrance is a large painted sundial with a blade gnomon, which bears the date 1671, possibly indicating the date of the porch's construction. There is a single angled chimney shaft on the porch gable. The north side has a sash window with glazing bars, while the south side has a blocked original window. The facade consists of five bays of sash windows with glazing bars set beneath skewback arches, and there are two 18th-century lead downpipes with hoppers. The early 19th-century projecting eaves are supported by paired brackets.
The gable ends from the 17th century feature stacks, each with three angled interconnecting shafts, and there is an off-centre axial stack with a rebuilt shaft. The rear service wing, added in the 19th century, has four cast iron casement windows with small panes.
Inside, the farmhouse retains some original features, including surviving joists, ties, and wall posts from the timber frame. The steeply pitched 18th-century roof includes collars and two sets of wedge-tenoned butt purlins, along with one surviving principal rafter from the original roof, which has a former collar and butt-purlins. There is a winding stair that leads from the first floor to the attic, and some oak panelling has been repositioned within the interior.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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