Portwood Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1983. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Portwood Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- under-copper-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Portwood Farmhouse, Great Ellingham, NR17 1AG
- OS grid reference
- TM 033 977
- Coordinates
- 52.53999, 0.99695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Portwood Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century, with a 19th-century cross wing. The building is timber framed with wattle and daub infill set on a brick plinth, while the cross wing is constructed of brick. It features pantiled gabled roofs and has two storeys, including a privy tower. There are three casement windows on each floor, and the roof has a bell-based gable. A central ridge stack is present. Inside, the sitting room displays wall posts and a chamfered beam with diamond stud and elongated tongue stops. There is a blocked winder staircase located by the stack, and the upper corridor and bedrooms still show the original framing.
Local climate
Portwood 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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