West Lexham Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
West Lexham Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- young-cellar-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West Lexham Farmhouse, PE32 2QN
- OS grid reference
- TF 843 170
- Coordinates
- 52.71996, 0.72849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Lexham Farmhouse is a farmhouse built around 1800. It features a main wing made of gault brick and a service wing constructed from brick and flint, all topped with black pantile roofs. The building has a T-shaped plan and is two storeys tall with a three-bay facade that includes sash windows with glazing bars set beneath skewback arches. The taller ground floor windows extend from ground level. The front door has a glazed upper panel and is flanked by narrow margin lights, topped with an elegant semicircular traceried fanlight. The porch has a simple entablature and cornice supported by pilasters, though the original columns have been replaced with simple metal supports. There is a stone platband and a moulded brick cornice featuring dentils, along with a parapet and a hipped roof. The service wing at the rear has six bays of sash windows with glazing bars beneath skewback arches on the first floor, while the ground floor has modern replacements, including one surviving late 19th-century tripartite sash window.
Local climate
West Lexham Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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