Fen Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
Fen Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vacant-soffit-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fen Farmhouse, Ash Lane, Carleton Rode, NR16 1RU
- OS grid reference
- TM 118 911
- Coordinates
- 52.47703, 1.1174
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fen Farmhouse is an early 17th century timber-frame house that has been plastered. It features gable-ended thatched roofs. The west part of the house is two storeys high with an attic, which includes attic windows in the gable ends, and has two windows along its facade. A central brick chimney stack is present. Inside, there is an ovolo moulded chamfer on the ceiling beam. The east part of the farmhouse is one storey with an attic and has a lower roof with two gabled dormers, along with a central brick chimney stack. The interior features a roll-moulded ceiling beam. All the windows are modern casements with leaded panes.
Local climate
Fen 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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