Turnpike Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1989. Farmhouse.
Turnpike Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- secret-steel-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Turnpike Farmhouse, London Road, Spooner Row
- OS grid reference
- TM 079 977
- Coordinates
- 52.53798, 1.06545
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turnpike Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600 that was encased in 1912. It features stretcher bond red brick over a timber frame, with a gabled glazed pantile roof, a brick ridge, and a right-end stack. The building has a three-unit baffle-entry plan and is two storeys high with a three-window range. There is a gauged flat brick arch over a half-glazed door that leads to an open-fronted porch, along with 20th-century three-light casement windows. The panels bear the inscription "JCC 1912". The gable ends display mock timbering with rendered panels, and there are four similar windows at the rear.
Inside, the exposed timber frame from around 1600 includes studwork, tension bracing, and wattle and daub infill. The ground floor has stop-chamfered beams and a 17th-century brick stack with a chamfered bressumer over a blocked fireplace. The first floor is divided into six bays by chamfered and jowled wall posts supporting a stop-chamfered tie butt-purlin roof. This roof was mostly rebuilt around 1912 but retains the original principal rafters and queen posts in the left bay.
Local climate
Turnpike 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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