Chequers Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. A C18 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Chequers Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- slow-rubblework-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Chequers Farmhouse, South Lopham
- OS grid reference
- TM 041 799
- Coordinates
- 52.37921, 0.99748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chequers Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse constructed with a timber frame and rendered wattle and daub infill on a brick plinth, topped with a thatched roof. The building features a lobby entrance plan and consists of one storey with a dormer attic. A 20th-century door is located to the right of the centre, flanked by a 20th-century casement window on each side, all of which are covered by drip hoods. The gabled roof has a gabled pantiled dormer above the door, which contains a late 18th-century casement window. There is a ridge stack, and a pantiled outbuilding made of flint and brick extends to the west. The north gable wall has been rebuilt in brick, while the south gable features a drip shelf. The interior frame consists of thin scantling, which is mostly hidden from view.
Local climate
Chequers 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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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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