Horrex Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1960. Farmhouse.

Horrex Farmhouse

WRENN ID
calm-slate-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 June 1960
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Horrex Farmhouse, Foulden
OS grid reference
TL 771 991
Coordinates
52.56119, 0.61253
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Horrex Farmhouse is a late 18th-century farmhouse constructed of gault brick, topped with a black and red pantile roof arranged in a chequer pattern. The building has three storeys and features five bays, each with late 20th-century double glazed windows set in their original openings, which are adorned with skewback arches. The windows on the top storey are smaller, with two of the openings being blind. The central window on the first floor is slightly highlighted by raised central voussoirs of the skewback arch, mimicking a keystone. A platband runs between the ground and first floors, and there is a simple dentil cornice. The central doorway is topped with a Y-traceried semicircular fanlight and framed by a doorcase with a pair of fluted pilasters that support a modern pitched hood. The front door is raised and fielded panelled. The farmhouse also features gable-end stacks and a continuous outshut at the rear, which has a catslide roof.

Local climate

Horrex Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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