Valley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Valley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- low-pedestal-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Valley Farmhouse, Sharrington Road, Gunthorpe, NR24 2PB
- OS grid reference
- TG 015 349
- Coordinates
- 52.87432, 0.99271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Valley Farmhouse is a 17th-century house located on Sharrington Road in Gunthorpe. It features flint walls with brick dressings and a red pantiled roof. The building has a lobby entrance plan and is two storeys high with an attic. The south front includes a later 17th-century gabled three-storey stair wing aligned with a central stack. The ground floor and first floor have casement windows, all of which are from the 20th century, with two windows on either side of the stair turret. The turret also has two windows and an attic moulded brick mullioned window, along with 20th-century dormers. The west gable has a later 17th-century brick stair tower, and there is a single-storey addition to the east.
On the north entrance front, the ground floor features two sash windows with glazing bars and two wooden mullioned windows on either side. The first floor has three casements and two 20th-century dormers, along with a 20th-century porch wing. The building has brick kneelers and parapets, with central end stacks that have external breasts and single octagonal shafts. Inside, there are chamfered spine beams on the ground floor, along with some surviving collars and wind braces in the roof.
Local climate
Valley Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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