Hollybush Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. House.

Hollybush Farmhouse

WRENN ID
spare-rampart-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Hollybush Farmhouse, Thwaite Road, Ditchingham
OS grid reference
TM 340 923
Coordinates
52.47899, 1.44542
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hollybush Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 16th century and later, with restoration in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is rendered and colour-washed, topped with a steeply pitched roof made of single roll-clay tiles. The building has two storeys and attics, following a lobby entrance plan. The windows are primarily 19th and 20th century casements, with some restored diamond-mullion windows located in the west and east gables. There is an off-centre axial stack, with the base rendered and the top rebuilt in the 20th century. The west gable has drip shelves, and there is an external stack on the east gable. A catslide roof covers a lean-to on the north side.

Inside, there is a winding stair in the lobby on the south side of the stack. The interior features a bridging beam with ogee stops and some 17th century ledged doors. At the west end, there is a first-floor fireplace with an elliptical brick arch that is chamfered with barred stops. The principal posts are jowled and jointed at the first-floor level, and the roof east of the chimney stack has three pairs of jowled queen posts with straight braces to the plates.

Local climate

Hollybush Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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