Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1958. House.

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
silver-flue-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 July 1958
Type
House
Address
Church Farmhouse, Village Green, Banham
OS grid reference
TM 064 881
Coordinates
52.4527, 1.03752
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 17th century. It features a timber-framed interior with lath and plaster partitions, all covered with roughcast brick. The roof is black glazed and pantiled. The house has a through passage plan and stands two storeys high with an attic. A central two-storey porch with a flat roof is present, along with a moulded 18th-century timber doorcase beneath a flat hood. There is one three-light 18th-century casement window on the upper floor, with similar windows on each side through both storeys, all fitted with glazing bars. The timber eaves cornice is decorated with raised diamond and floriated cross panels on the front and rear. The steeply pitched gabled roof features stepped and parapeted gables, along with three 20th-century flat-topped dormers. Internal gable stacks have triple diamond flues. The rear of the house has a central opposing door and 18th-century renewed two-light cross casement windows. The gable walls contain six blocked square windows and brickwork of mixed bonds.

To the north, there is a two-storey early 18th-century addition that is gabled and pantiled, with an entrance leading into the house's interior. Inside, the stairwell is timber framed, with a staircase that has a half-turn and quarter landings across three storeys. Open original fireplaces are found in all rooms up to the attic. The main bridging beams are chamfered with plain tongue stops, and H hinges are present on the surviving interior doors. The timber frame becomes more significant in the upper rooms, where the main walls transition to mud and stud, with the wall plate supported by arched braces from the transverse frame's principal studs. The roof structure includes tie beams, wind bracing, and two tiers of purlins, with the lower tier being butt purlins and the upper ties clasped by collars.

Local climate

Church 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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