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

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
winding-stair-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 1981
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Church Farmhouse, the Street, Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall
OS grid reference
TM 146 975
Coordinates
52.53381, 1.16366
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a long timber-framed building with plastered walls and a pantile roof. It features an early 17th century brick wing on the right side, which is painted and has a stepped gable along with brick pediments above the first floor and attic windows. The farmhouse has two storeys and an attic, with 18th and 19th century casement windows, some of which have leaded panes. The left wing, built in the mid-19th century, is made of plastered clay lump with a pantile roof and gabled ends. It has two storeys and two windows, featuring three-light metal frame casements with shouldered arch lights.

Local climate

Church 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 89% 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 65% 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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