Overgate House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Overgate House
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-floor-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Overgate House, Heath Road, Hockering, NR20 3JB
- OS grid reference
- TG 079 139
- Coordinates
- 52.68372, 1.07563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Overgate House is an early 18th-century former farmhouse, with later additions. The house is built of chequer-patterned brick, with a plaintile roof. It is two storeys high with an attic, and originally had four bays, now featuring 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion and transom windows dating from the 19th or 20th century. Three original skewback arches are present at the first floor level, with ground-floor windows positioned beneath them and featuring cambered soffits. A modern, off-centre front door is raised and fielded panelled, with a flat hood above. Projecting eaves and three dormers, each with a hipped roof, modillion cornices, and 2-light casement windows are also present. The structure incorporates one off-centre axial stack and one gable-end stack. Heightened gables show tumbling-in details. Later additions have been made to the side and rear of the building. Inside, one fireplace has a bolection-moulded surround, and a plain chamfered bridging joists with stepped stops are visible. The roof is of 19th-century construction, with wedge tenoned butt purlins.
Local climate
Overgate House 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2000
- 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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