Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1958. A Late C16 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- last-shingle-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1958
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, the Street, North Lopham, IP22 2LP
- OS grid reference
- TM 036 825
- Coordinates
- 52.40268, 0.99221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a late 16th-century farmhouse that features a timber frame with rendered wattle and daub infill and a thatched roof. The building has two storeys and an attic. The entrance door is located to the left of centre, set in a moulded doorcase beneath a flat fluted engaged pediment. To the right of the door, there are two 4-light 18th-century cross casements, also under similar pediments, with restored leaded glass. To the left, there is a 3-light ovolo mullioned window. The first floor has four 4-light 18th-century cross casements, which are also leaded. The gabled roof features rebuilt quadruple flues on a square plinth. There is a pantiled gabled extension on the east side, which has a drip shelf and a blocked louvred attic window. This extension includes similar 18th-century casements as seen on the facade.
The rear elevation has a two-storey stair turret beneath a low-pitched gabled roof. The upper window and four facade windows match those on the front. Inside, the close studded framing has been largely restored. The interior features chamfered and tongue-stopped bridging beams, and there is a winder staircase by the stack. The roof consists of tie beams, diminished principals, and collars that support clasped purlins, with straight windbracing.
Local climate
Church 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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