Church Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Church Farm House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-postern-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church Farm House, Gayton Road, Grimston, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE32 1BG
- OS grid reference
- TF 721 220
- Coordinates
- 52.76902, 0.54979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farm House is a farmhouse with a core dating to the 17th century, with later additions. The construction is primarily carstone with brick dressings, and the roof has been rebuilt with renewed pantiles and a raised gable parapet. The overall shape is T-shaped, with lower additions to the west of the original crosswing. The house is two storeys high with attics.
The east facade features a wide single bay to the left and a crosswing to the right. The left bay is of roughly coursed galletted carstone, with a brick capped plinth, brick quoins, and an internal stack on the south end. Ground floor windows are late 20th-century French windows with glazing bars, while the first floor has one blocked rectangular opening and an inserted window with glazing bars to the right. The forward wing to the right has a gable facing east, constructed of small carstone. It includes an enlarged 2-light casement to the ground floor with glazing bars, a sash window to the first floor, and a small 2-light attic window with pintle hinges, a chamfered brick surround and a square hood mould.
The south return incorporates some flint in the upper walls, alongside the galletted carstone, and displays two small blocked lights to the ground floor and a 20th-century window within a 17th-century surround on the first floor. The north return of the crosswing has three bays, including an attached porch and loggia of no particular interest. The ground floor has a late 19th-century 3-light casement, while the first floor has three openings: one blocked to the left, renewed in the centre, and a double-leaded glazed casement with pintle hinges to the right.
The rear of the main range mirrors the east facade, with two flush sashes each with glazing bars in the upper parts, and a lean-to porch added in 1985. The south return of the crosswing includes a blocked attic window and a casement with glazing bars.
The west gable of the crosswing is attached to a lower wing in three parts. The south facade of this wing has a lower two-storey single bay attached, constructed with a sawtooth cornice, pantiles, clunch and brick headers, and a 20th-century 3-light casement to the ground floor. A blocked doorway is located to the left. The first floor has a flush sash with glazing bars, and a blocked attic window to the south.
An attached lower range, of 1½ storeys and one bay plus an older chimney bay, is constructed of brick headers and varied stone, with the upper part galletted and corrugated tiles. The chimney bay has a vertical join and is composed of carstone rubble in the lower part, raised flint and brick headers in the upper part. The gable of the chimney bay to the south has carstone rubble, a steep gable of single storey raised to 1½ storeys (with a subsequent reduction in roof height and a rendered stack), and a stone plaque dated 1779.
Local climate
Church Farm House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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