Sunnyside Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1951. A Medieval Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Sunnyside Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tired-bastion-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 July 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Period
Medieval
Address
Sunnyside Farmhouse, Church Green, Old Buckenham, NR17 1RN
OS grid reference
TM 066 915
Coordinates
52.48268, 1.04193
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sunnyside Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the late 15th century and was rebuilt in the late 16th century. The structure is partly brick and otherwise timber framed, featuring rendered wattle and daub infill and pantiled roofs. It has cross wings to the east and west and is two storeys high.

The south front includes a two-storey gabled porch with a five-light cross casement timber window above the door. To the right of the porch is a renewed 18th-century three-light timber cross casement window below a four-light mullioned window, both with leaded lights. The gabled roof has a ridge stack with four octagonal flues on bell-moulded bases and an external stack on the east gable.

The left cross wing displays exposed timbering across two floors and features a jettied attic, which has a roll-moulded bressummer with remnants of cable interlace. The upper floors have mullioned and cross casement windows, and a greenhouse is attached to the ground floor. This cross wing has a gabled roof. The east cross wing is a late 18th-century clay lump addition on a brick plinth, featuring casements on the ground floor and round-headed windows on the first floor.

The north front of the west cross wing has a jettied attic storey and a three-light 18th-century cross casement window. The main range is similar, but the east first-floor window is mullioned. Inside, the timber framing is mostly intact, with a wave-moulded brick fireplace in the west room and a chamfered fireplace in the east room.

Local climate

Sunnyside Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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