Primrose Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1993. Farmhouse.
Primrose Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lunar-gateway-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1993
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Primrose Farmhouse, Primrose Lane, South Lopham
- OS grid reference
- TM 041 815
- Coordinates
- 52.3942, 0.99973
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Primrose Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber framed, with a red brick facade at the front, roughcast at the rear, and weatherboarding on the sides, along with a brick gable end. The roof is made of pantiles and features gabled ends, with brick stacks located at the axial and gable ends.
The building has a three-room plan, with an entrance lobby in front of the axial stack, which contains back-to-back fireplaces that heat the central and left rooms. The chamber above the left room juts out at the gable end. The smaller room at the right end has a gable-end stack but may have originally been unheated. There is also an unheated outshut behind the left end that is possibly integral to the structure.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window southeast front. The 19th-century windows are three-light casements, with transoms and cambered arches featuring keyblocks on the ground floor. There is a similar arch above the doorway to the left of centre, which has a glazed and panelled door. The southwest gable end has a first floor that jetties out, supported by the remains of jetty brackets. At the rear, there are small casements, and the centre window of the outshut is a moulded mullion window from the early 17th century, possibly reused.
Inside, the left-hand room features a boxed-in cross-beam, while the 20th-century chimneypiece has a chamfered cross-beam and a chimneypiece from the 18th or 19th century. The smaller room on the right has a chamfered axial beam and a small fireplace with a 20th-century range. Some wall posts are exposed on the ground floor, and the timber framing is also visible in the outshut.
Local climate
Primrose Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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