Old Jolly Farmers is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1999. House, public house.

Old Jolly Farmers

WRENN ID
brooding-pilaster-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 October 1999
Type
House, public house
Address
Old Jolly Farmers, Yaxham Road, Dereham
OS grid reference
TF 997 119
Coordinates
52.66826, 0.95296
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Jolly Farmers is a house that dates from the late 17th century. It was converted into a public house in the 19th century and then back into a house in 1954. The building is timber framed, covered in early 18th-century brick, and has a thatched roof. It has a lobby entrance plan.

The exterior is one storey with a dormer attic. The south front features an early 20th-century door located to the left of the center. There is one late 20th-century three-light casement window to the left and two to the right, all under segmental heads. The roof has two eyebrow dormers with late 19th-century two-light casements, and there is a ridge stack positioned over the door.

On the east gable end, there is one 20th-century casement window on the ground floor and two on the first floor. The north side has a full-length pantiled outshut fitted with 20th-century windows and a door. The west gable end features two 19th-century two-light leaded casements on the ground floor and one late 20th-century casement in the attic.

Inside, the west ground-floor room has a chamfered bridging beam with one tongue stop. There is a winder staircase located north of the stack. The east center room contains a chamfered spine beam with tongue stops, along with two east service rooms. The first floor displays jowled principal studs, and the roof structure consists of principals, collars, and one tier of butt purlins. The building's plan is particularly interesting as it retains post-medieval service rooms in combination with a lobby entrance.

Local climate

Old Jolly Farmers receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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