Dove House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 April 1955. A C16 Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Dove House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- mired-string-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dove House Farmhouse, Dove House Lane, Potter Heigham, NR29 5LJ
- OS grid reference
- TG 417 195
- Coordinates
- 52.71994, 1.57817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dove House Farmhouse is a house that was once a farmhouse, with origins dating back to the 16th century and alterations made in each century, including the 20th century. The building is constructed of flint with brick dressings and has a thatched roof. It features an altered lobby entrance plan and a flint plinth. The house has two storeys and an attic.
On the south front, there are two doors, which have been divided into two properties in the 19th and 20th centuries, each under segmental heads. To the left of each door, there are large 16th-century window openings that have been blocked for 18th-century windows, which were then blocked again and further reduced to accommodate two late 19th-century casements. The first floor has four casements, two from the 18th century and two from the 20th century. The gabled roof has a ridge stack over the left door, and the west gable features reused ashlar quoins and a parapeted gable head, with an ecclesiastical grotesque used as a kneeler. The east gable has been rebuilt.
At the rear, there is a full-length 19th-century brick and corrugated tile outshut, which is pierced by 20th-century windows. Above this, there are three 20th-century casements on the first floor of the main block.
Inside, there is a three-light hollow mullioned window on the ground floor that looks into the 19th-century outshut on the north side. The fireplace in the eastern ground floor room has a cambered bressummer bearing a coat of arms and a reused ecclesiastical jamb on one side. The ceiling features a roll moulded-bridging beam. Next to the fireplace, there is a doorway with a decorated lintel and hollow and roll moulded jamb. A winder staircase by the stack has 20th-century stairs but is set in a circular 16th-century well. The early 18th-century roof consists of principals, staggered butt purlins in two tiers, and collars.
Local climate
Dove House Farmhouse receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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