Walnut Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House.

Walnut Tree Farmhouse

WRENN ID
winding-gateway-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
House
Address
Walnut Tree Farmhouse, South Lopham
OS grid reference
TM 043 802
Coordinates
52.3824, 1.0007
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made around 1700 and in the mid 19th century. It features a timber framed interior and a brick facade with gault brick dressings, topped by a slate roof. The building has two storeys and a dormer attic, with two doors and three ground floor windows that are set under segmental arches. The first floor has five casement windows of varying sizes, all of which are 20th-century replacements. There are three flat-topped 20th-century dormers in the hipped roof, and a ridge stack located to the right of centre. The rear of the house includes a full-height gabled stair turret from around 1700, which has one 20th-century casement window. To the right, there are pantiled outshuts. Inside, the timber framing is unremarkable, but the south ground floor room features a filleted bridging beam with sunk quadrant mouldings that are interrupted by raised convex studs. The joists in this room are roll moulded with tongue stops.

Local climate

Walnut Tree 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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