Beach Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 April 1955. Farmhouse.
Beach Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- floating-sill-sepia
- 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
- Beach Farmhouse, Heath Road, Lessingham
- OS grid reference
- TG 408 280
- Coordinates
- 52.79606, 1.57086
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beach Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse constructed from rendered and colourwashed brick, topped with roofs of black glazed pantiles. The building has an L-shaped plan and features a baffle entry. The two-storey west facade includes a cross wing on the left side. A 20th-century gabled porch is situated below a circular window. There is one 19th-century casement window on both the left and right sides, with two similar windows above. The roof is gabled, and there is a ridge stack to the right of the doorway. The two-storey cross wing has one 19th-century casement window on each floor, with a door to the right. This wing also has a gabled roof and an internal gable end stack on the western side. The east facade is two storeys high and consists of four bays, with a door located to the left of centre in a timber case. The windows are horned sashes with glazing bars.
Local climate
Beach Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% 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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