College Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
College Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- final-steel-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- College Farmhouse, Basil Road, West Dereham, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE33 9RP
- OS grid reference
- TF 653 005
- Coordinates
- 52.5775, 0.43841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, originally dating from around 1600, with significant additions in 1626 and 1900, and alterations in the late 20th century. The building is timber framed with brick infill, and has brick, flint, and carstone gable walls. The roof is slate.
The farmhouse is one storey high with a dormer attic. The timber frame exhibits close studding of thin timbers on a brick plinth, with straight braces at the corners. A 20th-century door is located to the right of centre, beneath a gabled porch. There are three 20th-century three-light cross casement windows. Three 20th-century gable dormers rise through deep, coved eaves. The roof is gabled.
The north gable wall is stepped and sits on a plinth. It features four two-light square mullioned windows constructed of chamfered brick, each beneath a brick hood with a label. All of these windows are now blocked except for a single light on the first floor to the right. Kneelers lead up to the coped gable head. A datestone bearing the date 1626 is positioned below a square internal gable stack. The south gable is similar in appearance, although the windows are no longer identifiable.
The west facade mirrors the timber framing and brick infill of the rest of the building. It has two 20th-century casement windows. A two-storey gault brick gabled extension projects as a cross wing to the left, displaying the datestones "C" and "CC" 1900.
Local climate
College Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- 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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