Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1991. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
eternal-corner-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1991
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Church Farmhouse, Dereham Road, Garvestone, Reymerston and Thuxton, NR9 4AD
OS grid reference
TG 023 074
Coordinates
52.62667, 0.98843
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with extensions from the 17th century and a facing added in 1871, as indicated by a datestone on the west gable end. The building features a timber frame that has been faced and partially replaced with brick, topped by a corrugated tile roof. It has a lobby entrance layout with an off-centre axial stack and stands two storeys high. The facade consists of three bays with 19th-century light casement windows that have double horizontal glazing bars. The ground floor windows are set beneath square hood moulds. At the rear, there is a catslide roof over a circa 19th-century outshut, covered with black glazed pantiles, featuring a raking dormer and a 19th-century casement window. Inside, there is evidence of the original through passage leading to the eastern end, along with remnants of a service partition. The interior also includes broach chamfer stops and long empty mortices for an arched head to the service doorway. The 17th-century western bay has nicked chamfer stops, and the roof structure, dating from the late 17th or 18th century, retains some original tie beams.

Local climate

Church 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 80% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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