Beech Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Beech Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- second-tracery-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Beech Farmhouse, Thorpe Row, Shipdham, IP25 7NN
- OS grid reference
- TF 969 088
- Coordinates
- 52.64155, 0.90984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the 16th century with later alterations. The original timber frame has been replaced with brick on the south side, and the roof is covered in pantiles. The house follows a screens passage plan with evidence of former entrances on opposite sides. It is one and a half storeys in height.
The south facade has three bays of 2-light casement windows from the 19th century, with apparent wooden lintels and rectangular hood moulds on the ground floor. A 20th-century glazed door sits in the original position, sheltered by a 19th-century gabled hood supported on curved brackets. The north facade has three bays of 3-light casements and a modern door, opposite an off-centre axial stack. A 19th-century gabled hood with shaped bargeboards is present, along with a modern gable-end stack to the west.
Inside, the hall features elaborately moulded re-used bridging joists and chamfered joists. A pair of reset service doors with 4-centred heads are present, along with a 4-centred head over the former north entrance. A fine queen post roof truss is visible, featuring a cambered tie and arched braces.
Local climate
Beech Farmhouse 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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