House at Owls Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1985. Farmhouse.
House at Owls Barn
- WRENN ID
- sombre-wicket-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- House at Owls Barn, Lingwood Road, Blofield
- OS grid reference
- TG 343 096
- Coordinates
- 52.63357, 1.46118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The House at Owls Barn is an early 18th-century farmhouse constructed of red brick and colourwashed brick, topped with a thatched roof. The building has two storeys and features a continuous rear outshut. It has three windows, a central half-glazed entrance door, and 20th-century casement windows. The first floor displays segmental brick arches, and there is evidence of blocked windows in the south wall. The house has parapet gables and end stacks, as well as chamfered bridging joists with ogee stops. Inside, there is a fragment of a fireplace bressumer that bears the monogram R.W. and is dated 1732. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
House at Owls Barn receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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