Silver Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1984. Farmhouse.
Silver Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vast-gutter-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Silver Farmhouse, Silver Street, Besthorpe
- OS grid reference
- TM 061 958
- Coordinates
- 52.52133, 1.03722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Silver Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse located on Silver Street in Besthorpe. The building is timber framed with rendered wattle and daub infill and features a thatched roof. It has one storey and a dormer attic. The rear of the farmhouse has two symmetrical doors, with the right door sheltered by a 20th-century porch. There is a mix of 18th-century and 20th-century casement windows. On the left side, there are two gabled dormers with casements and bargeboards that have drop pendants. The right side features two eyebrow dormers with casements. The farmhouse has a gabled roof, with a ridge stack positioned over the left door and an internal stack on the right gable. The west gable includes two drip shelves and one casement window. Inside, the ceiling beams have triple stud stops.
Local climate
Silver Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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