Mayfield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1984. A C16 Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Mayfield Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- steep-remnant-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Mayfield Farmhouse, Silver Street, Besthorpe, NR17 2LE
- OS grid reference
- TM 073 967
- Coordinates
- 52.52895, 1.05508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mayfield Farmhouse is a mid-16th century farmhouse with an early 19th century front range. The rear portion is timber-framed, while the front is brick. The roof is covered in black glazed pantiles. The two-storey facade features a central fluted doorcase, now behind a 20th-century trellis porch. There is one sash window to the left and right of the door, and three to the first floor, all with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. The roof has overhanging eaves and is hipped. The original timber-framed rear range is now incorporated into a unified block. A gabled roof with an off-centre ridge stack rises from the two-storey structure, which includes scattered 19th and 20th century casement windows. A section of the north gable wall was rebuilt in 1941. The dining room at the rear retains a 16th-century spine beam with hollow and roll mouldings, including triple rolls at the base, along with joists that have sunk rolls.
Local climate
Mayfield 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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