Corner Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Corner Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solemn-vestry-clover
- 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
- Corner Farmhouse, Low Road, Forncett, NR16 1JF
- OS grid reference
- TM 164 934
- Coordinates
- 52.49586, 1.1865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Corner Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-framed house with a roughcast exterior. It features a steep gable-ended roof covered with black glazed pantiles. The building has a prominent brick chimney stack that is off-centre and has three shafts, which are lozenge-shaped in plan. The farmhouse is two storeys tall with an attic, which includes an attic window in the gable ends and one dormer. The 19th-century windows are three-light casements. On the left side, there is a panelled door set within a pilastered doorcase that has a cornice. At the rear, there is a lean-to structure.
Local climate
Corner 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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