Colks Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Farmhouse.
Colks Farm House
- WRENN ID
- noble-roof-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Colks Farm House, Coltishall
- OS grid reference
- TG 267 217
- Coordinates
- 52.74607, 1.35761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Colks Farm House is a farmhouse that dates from the early 18th century, with an earlier core from the 17th century. It is constructed of red brick and has a pantiled roof. The building is two storeys high, featuring a single-storey outshut that has been converted to one and a half storeys. There is a two-storey extension added to the north in the 20th century, along with a single-storey lean-to extension to the south and a 19th-century axial extension to the east, creating an 'L' shaped plan.
The principal facade faces south and has an off-centre entrance door. The lower half of the west gable wall is made of flint with a plinth and is likely from the 17th century. The upper half features a moulded platband, blocked windows with hood moulds, and two small niches at the attic level. There is an end stack with a string course and two rebuilt round brick shafts. The windows on the southern facade are 20th-century casements set in original openings, which have segmental brick arches.
The southwestern quarter of the facade has a brick plinth with moulded brick plinth bricks and a platband at the first-floor level. The remainder of the facade is late 18th century, showcasing brick corbel eaves. A line of the earlier gable can be seen in the east gable. The outshut features 20th-century gabled dormers, along with a 20th-century entrance door and a pedimented doorcase. The building has parapet gables, an off-centre axial stack, and an east gable stack.
Local climate
Colks Farm House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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