Flashpit Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1952. Farmhouse.
Flashpit Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-crypt-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Flashpit Farmhouse, Aylsham Road, Blickling
- OS grid reference
- TG 184 279
- Coordinates
- 52.80521, 1.23924
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Flashpit Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse constructed of red brick with a pantiled roof, and a porch that is also plaintiled. The building has three storeys at the front and two storeys at the rear. Its symmetrical facade features three bays: the ground floor has cross-casements with glazing bars, the first floor has cruciform sashes with glazing bars, and the second floor has 2-light casements. There are gauged arches above the openings on the ground and first floors. The central porch is adorned with a pediment supported by Tuscan columns, and it has later glazing and doors. The entrance door consists of six panels, is partly glazed, and has a rectangular fanlight above it. The farmhouse has a modillion eaves cornice and parapet gables with moulded eaves corbels, along with internal chimney stacks. At the rear, there is a catslide extension featuring sashes and casements, and a large external stack is located at the south-east corner.
Local climate
Flashpit Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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