Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1979. Farmhouse.

Manor Farmhouse

WRENN ID
burning-screen-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 August 1979
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Manor Farmhouse, the Street, Hockering
OS grid reference
TG 072 131
Coordinates
52.67614, 1.06412
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor Farmhouse is a former barn and stables that has been converted into a dwelling. It dates from the 17th century and 18th century, with later alterations. The building features a combination of brick and weatherboarded timber frame, topped with a thatched roof. It is a single-storey structure with two phases of brickwork, and nearly half of its length is timber frame.

The east side has all openings beneath segmental arches. The 17th-century section at the northern end is constructed with small bricks in an irregular bond. There is a later cart entrance that has been glazed, along with one boarded door and a small low opening with a boarded shutter. The central section from the 18th century displays chequer pattern brickwork and has symmetrically arranged openings that were once for stables. The central entrance frame and fanlight have been retained but now feature fixed glazing. There are two flanking windows, each half glazed with small panes and half filled with ventilation slits.

Modern weatherboarding has been added to the timber frame, and the north gable shows tumbling-in. The gable ends and the west side have later lean-to extensions. There are metal railings around the courtyard on the west side, along with a modern axial stack and two dormers featuring jalousie vents.

Local climate

Manor 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 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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