Old Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1983. Farmhouse.
Old Farm House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-slate-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Farm House, Merton
- OS grid reference
- TL 908 989
- Coordinates
- 52.55507, 0.81424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. It features a timber frame with wattle and daub on a brick plinth and has a thatched roof. The building has a lobby entrance and is two storeys tall. There is a central door beneath a chimney stack, with two casement windows on either side on both floors. The windows, which were installed in the late 1970s, fit into 18th-century openings. A single bay was added to the north in 1979. The roof is gabled with an overhang and a central stack, and the windows at the rear match those at the front. Inside, there are central fireplaces, but the original staircase by the stack has been removed. The timber framing remains intact, and the first-floor corridor, dating from the 18th century, contains a blocked 17th-century timber mullioned window with grooves for sliding shutters. Other remains of 17th-century windows can also be found.
Local climate
Old Farm 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 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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