Empton House is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. House.

Empton House

WRENN ID
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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
Empton House, the Street, Brockdish
OS grid reference
TM 213 796
Coordinates
52.36999, 1.25021
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Empton House is a 17th-century timber-framed house that has been plastered. It features a steep pantile roof with gabled ends and has brick chimney stacks located near both the east and west ends. The building is two storeys high with an attic, which includes a window in the gable end. There are four widely spaced windows, which are three-light 19th-century ovolo-moulded mullion casements, with drip moulds over the ground floor windows. The entrance includes a 19th-century door and a side window, both with a drip mould above. Additionally, there is a later two-storey one-bay wing on the west end, which is also plastered and has a steep pantile roof.

Local climate

Empton House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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