Barker's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1983. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Barker's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stony-basalt-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Barker's Farmhouse, Roudham and Larling, NR16 2RA
- OS grid reference
- TL 975 905
- Coordinates
- 52.47706, 0.90791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barker's Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of brick and features a tiled roof. The building is two storeys high and has a central doorway with a 20th-century door. To the left and right of the doorway are original window openings, while the first floor has three smaller openings, all of which are now filled with 20th-century iron casements. The farmhouse has a toothed eaves cornice and end gables that have deep coping and brick tumbling. There are internal stacks and an outshut at the rear, which contains three window openings with 20th-century casements. Additionally, there is a single blocked doorway with a coarse brick arch and deep coping that is flush with the gable walls, also featuring brick tumbling.
Local climate
Barker's 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 84% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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