Algar's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1972. Farmhouse.
Algar's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- open-threshold-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1972
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Algar's Farmhouse, Alger's Farmhouse, Diss
- OS grid reference
- TM 125 809
- Coordinates
- 52.3851, 1.12123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Algar's Farmhouse is a 17th-century building that features a timber frame and is covered in plaster with a colourwashed finish. The roof is thatched and hipped at the east end, and there is a brick chimney at the ridge. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has two gabled half-dormer easements along with two small casement windows located under the eaves. On the ground floor, there are two mullion casement windows and a plain entrance.
Local climate
Algar's Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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