The Pleasance is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1984. House.
The Pleasance
- WRENN ID
- seventh-remnant-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Pleasance, Queen Street, New Buckenham
- OS grid reference
- TM 088 903
- Coordinates
- 52.47156, 1.07312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pleasance is a house dating from around 1600, featuring a timber frame with wattle and daub infill and a mid-19th century brick facing. The building has two storeys and includes two doors, one of which is blocked, situated under rendered skewback arches. It is adorned with corner and central flat pilasters and has three windows on each floor, which are a mix of 19th and 20th century casements and sashes. The roof has a bell-based gable and a brick saw-toothed eaves cornice, with a ridge stack positioned to the left of center.
Inside, the structure has close studding on a brick plinth with a middle rail, and the staircase is located by the stack. The beams are tongue stopped, and the upstairs north room features tension and arch-braced corner posts, which were originally open to the roof. The roof structure has mostly been reconstructed and includes square section queen posts, collars, and clasped and butt purlins arranged in two tiers.
Local climate
The Pleasance 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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