Wolferton House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 October 1985. Farmhouse. 8 related planning applications.
Wolferton House
- WRENN ID
- slow-wall-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 October 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wolferton House, Sporle with Palgrave, PE32 2UE
- OS grid reference
- TF 850 101
- Coordinates
- 52.65781, 0.73508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wolferton House is a late 18th-century brick farmhouse with pantile roofs, built in a T-shaped plan. The main three-story block is flanked by single-story pavilions, each featuring two two-light casement windows with semicircular heads. The main block has three bays, with a pair of Venetian windows on the ground floor. A panelled front door, partially glazed, is set within a pedimented doorcase supported by pilasters. Later 19th-century sash windows with single vertical glazing bars beneath skewback arches are found on the first floor, while smaller sash windows with similar skewback arches are on the top floor. The building features shaped modillion cornices and hipped roofs, with a pair of chimney stacks on the rear wall. The side pavilions also have chimney stacks on their rear walls. A service wing extends to the rear and contains some surviving mullion and transom windows—both two-light and three-light—on the first floor, along with an axial chimney stack.
Local climate
Wolferton House 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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