Leicester Square Farmhouse with Quadrant Wings Attached to North and South is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1985. Farmhouse.
Leicester Square Farmhouse with Quadrant Wings Attached to North and South
- WRENN ID
- haunted-baluster-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- TF 865 336
- Coordinates
- 52.86838, 0.77057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leicester Square Farmhouse, built in 1793 by architect Samuel Wyatt for the Leicester Estate, features quadrant wings attached to the north and south. The farmhouse is constructed of gault brick with mathematical tiles and has gault brick dressings, with a roof that has been replaced with 20th-century pantiles.
The central part of the farmhouse is a two-storey, three-bay structure with single-storey, four-bay quadrant wings. The garden front has a rendered half-basement plinth with two semi-circular cast-iron fixed casements. There are two ground floor and three first floor sash windows with glazing bars, all set under flat rubbed brick arches. The central entrance, accessed by five stone steps, is framed by Doric pilasters and a pediment, featuring two leaf part-glazed doors with glazed sidelights. The central bay is slightly projected and topped with an eaves-level pediment that has a blank round arch centerpiece. Moulded brick cornices adorn the building, and the hipped roof has two sash windows.
The quadrant wings to the north and south each have one surviving pedimented door architrave, while one has had its pediment removed. The farmyard side features two ground floor and three first floor sash windows with glazing bars, along with a central door beneath a pentice canopy. The returns of the quadrants lead to the north and south naves, which include three Leicester Estate three-light cast iron fixed casements and boarded doors. There are three gault brick stacks on the north side and two on the south. The south quadrant ends with a single-storey red brick hipped roof game-larder, while the north quadrant is terminated by a rebuilt 20th-century balancing block.
The courtyard is enclosed by brick walls that are swept at the north and south ends, with rebuilt 20th-century piers at the center. Inside, there is a well staircase featuring a first floor landing with a segmental arch adorned with rosettes on the intrados. This farmhouse serves as the centerpiece and west range of the Leicester Estate model farm layout.
Local climate
Leicester Square Farmhouse with Quadrant Wings Attached to North and South receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% 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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