Lower Green Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1952. Farm house.
Lower Green Farm House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-zinc-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1952
- Type
- Farm house
- Address
- Lower Green Farm House, Freethorpe
- OS grid reference
- TG 408 058
- Coordinates
- 52.59703, 1.55562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Green Farm House is a former farm house, mainly from the 18th century, with a 17th-century wing to the west. The building features red brick and rendered, colourwashed timber framing, topped with black pantile and thatched roofs. It has two storeys, with the west wing having one and a half storeys and the east side being one storey. There are two storey and single storey rear extensions. The 18th-century wing has a south facade with three windows and a central 19th-century four-panel door, which is framed by a moulded timber doorcase with patera stops and a projecting pentice board. The windows are 20th-century sashes with glazing bars, and there are flat gauged brick arches at ground floor level. Set back pilasters are located at each end, and there is a brick plinth with a plat band at both the first floor and attic floor levels on the gables. The eaves are adorned with timber dentils, and the gables have parapets with brick kneelers and end stacks. There is a blocked opening in the east gable. The timber-framed western wing has a tarred brick plinth and a brick gable wall with kneelers, a parapet verge, and tumbling-in. The wall plate and sill plate are visible externally. The west gable features a 19th-century four-light transomed casement window and two 20th-century casements. The roof is thatched. There is a single storey 19th-century wash house with one window to the east and a central axial stack. Inside the lower wing, fragments of timber framing are visible, including a chamfered axial beam with jewelled stops and a double roof with 18th-century knees bolted to the principals. The 18th-century wing showcases ogee and niched stops, as well as open brick fireplaces with timber bressumers. The roof was replaced around 1980.
Local climate
Lower Green Farm House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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