Lilac Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1977. House. 5 related planning applications.
Lilac Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tattered-balcony-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lilac Farmhouse, 42, Seamrere Road, Hingham, NR9 4LW
- OS grid reference
- TG 031 017
- Coordinates
- 52.57577, 0.99664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Farmhouse, located on Seamere Road, is a 17th-century house. It features a timber frame construction with roughcast on the east half and weatherboarding on the west half. The roof is covered with black glazed pantiles and has gable ends. The house is two storeys high, with the west end originally serving as an open hall and believed to have been a Quaker Meeting House. At the time of the survey in 1976, it was undergoing renovation.
The first floor has three new two-light casement windows with glazing bars. On the ground floor, there is a large three-light casement window on the right and a four-light French window on the left, both also with glazing bars. The central entrance features a vertical boarded door. A large brick chimney stack, rendered on the east end, is present, along with a later outshut at the rear. The interior showcases exposed timber framing and chamfered beams, with the west end maintaining its open hall design.
Local climate
Lilac Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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