Gower's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. A Medieval Farmhouse.
Gower's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- former-chimney-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Gower's Farmhouse, Bridge Road, Bunwell
- OS grid reference
- TM 139 911
- Coordinates
- 52.47638, 1.14867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gower's Farmhouse is a 15th to 16th century hall house that was floored in the 17th century. It features a plastered timber frame with some areas of fragmentary pargetting and has a thatched roof with gabled ends. The farmhouse has a rebuilt brick chimney stack that is off centre and stands two storeys tall. There are some small original mullion windows, while others have been rebuilt in the original style. The doorway is located on the front of the chimney stack. To the left of the front is a dairy wing, which is timber-framed with brick infill and has a pantile gabled roof. At the rear, there is a large external brick chimney stack. Inside, the hall is now floored and includes arched braces to the tie-beam and wind braces.
Local climate
Gower's 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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