Boscombe House and Twyford is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1971. House.
Boscombe House and Twyford
- WRENN ID
- deep-string-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Boscombe House and Twyford, 4, Ford Street, Thetford, IP24 2EP
- OS grid reference
- TL 873 826
- Coordinates
- 52.41007, 0.75292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boscombe House and Twyford are a pair of houses built in the mid-18th century. They are constructed from cut flint with gault and red brick dressings, topped with a roof of black-glazed pantiles. The buildings are two storeys high and feature eight irregular bays, a plinth course, a dentil eaves cornice, and a gabled roof.
Boscombe House (No.2) has a carriage entrance at the south-east end, fitted with double timber doors. To the right, there are four 6/6 sash windows under segmental heads, with four more on the first floor. There are two doorways next to the right, the left-hand one featuring fluted pilaster strips and a plain hood, while the other has a 20th-century six-panelled door. Above these doorways are two additional 6/6 sash windows.
Twyford House (No.4) appears outwardly symmetrical with two bays. It has a central 20th-century door flanked by one 6/6 horned sash window on either side, along with two similar sashes on the first floor. The lower windows have segmental arches. The building has an internal gable-end stack to the north-west and south-east, as well as two ridge stacks. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Boscombe House and Twyford 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% 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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