Silver Dale is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1983. Rectory. 1 related planning application.
Silver Dale
- WRENN ID
- spare-gutter-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- Silver Dale, Thompson, IP25 6QQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 924 987
- Coordinates
- 52.55273, 0.83712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Silver Dale is a rectory that has been converted into a private house, built in 1851. It is constructed of brick and features black pantiled roofs. The building has a double pile plan and stands two storeys high with five bays. The central bay projects slightly forward and contains a round arched doorway with a fanlight above a glazed door. There are four sash windows on the ground floor and five on the first floor, all set under gauged skewback arches. A continuous string course runs around the first floor of the house. The roof is gabled with a slight parapet and has a well-ordered arrangement of chimney stacks.
The rear elevation features two full-height, two-storey bays that project forward and are gabled, adorned with decorated bargeboards. To the left of the centre on the rear, there is a 20th-century doorway next to a 20th-century bow window. The west bay includes four-light arched windows on both floors, while the other windows are sash windows similar to those at the front. The building has a dentiled eaves cornice and a two-bay addition to the east that was added later.
Local climate
Silver Dale sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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- 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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