Kennel Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Kennel Farmhouse

WRENN ID
plain-bonework-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
Constituency
North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 April 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Kennel Farmhouse, Castle Acre Road, Great Massingham, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE32 2HD
OS grid reference
TF 797 225
Coordinates
52.7709, 0.66312
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kennel Farmhouse is a farmhouse that consists of two sections, built around 1600 at the south and in the 18th century at the north. The earlier section is constructed from flint, clunch, and brick, while the later addition is made of brick. The south section has a roof covered with machine-made concrete pantiles, and the north section has red pantiles. The building is two storeys high.

The 1600 section features a single ground floor window that was inserted in the 20th century within an 18th-century brick-dressed opening, along with two first-floor sash windows that have glazing bars. An extension to the east, which shares the same roof pitch, includes a single ground floor and first floor window, as well as a 20th-century door. The west gable of the earlier section has a single ground floor window that has been blocked at the attic gable, along with a rectangular brick-dressed window from around 1600. This section also has stone quoins, a south-west angle kneeler with a finial, and a stone parapet gable.

The second 18th-century section at the north has two ground floor sash windows with glazing bars, one first-floor window that has been blocked, and two painted flush blank windows. There is a three-sided canted two-storey bow on the west side, which has two ground floor sash windows, one painted blank window, one first-floor sash window, and two painted blank windows. A fine late 18th-century doorcase, which is semi-circular in plan, features two columns, two antae, a bowed entablature, and a flat roof, along with a six-panel raised and fielded door. The farmhouse has one ridge stack, which is the original west external stack from the 1600 build, as well as one stack at the east end and one at the north eaves.

Local climate

Kennel Farmhouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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