Lyng House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Farmhouse.
Lyng House
- WRENN ID
- haunted-chapel-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lyng House, Primrose Green
- OS grid reference
- TG 070 162
- Coordinates
- 52.70427, 1.0631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lyng House is a farmhouse built in 1734, as indicated by the engraving on a west gable tie-ends, which also form the initials I.B. The building is constructed of brick with pantile roofs and features a rectangular main block alongside a lower service wing that is contemporary to the main structure. It stands two storeys tall with an attic, while the service wing is one storey with an attic.
The main block is symmetrical, consisting of seven bays, and has a central late 18th-century raised and fielded panelled door set within a pedimented doorcase supported by pilasters. Above the door is a blind window that displays a Norwich Union insurance plaque numbered 10282. The original openings have modern aluminium windows, though two late 18th-century sash windows with glazing bars remain flanking the front door, rendered blind by the late 18th-century entrance hall, which features plaster coved niches filling the window spaces. The ground floor windows are adorned with skewback arches, and there is a plaster coved cornice throughout.
The gable-end stacks include an eastern stack with angled shafts, which may be remnants of an earlier structure. The service wing contains one original four-light mullion and transom window beneath a skewback arch, and it also has a plaster coved cornice. Two late 19th-century gabled dormers with shaped barge boards have been added.
Inside, the house primarily features late 18th-century elements, including one surviving duck's nest fire grate and several surrounds with pilasters and moulded and carved mantelpieces. The hall has a York stone floor and a staircase with square section balusters on an open string, shaped tread ends, and a swept handrail. The original butt-purlin roof is also intact.
Local climate
Lyng House 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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