Orchard Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Orchard Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ragged-pinnacle-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Orchard Farmhouse, Beccles Road, Hales, NR14 6QJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 375 964
- Coordinates
- 52.51401, 1.49917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse located on Hales Beccles Road. It is constructed of red brick, with some areas rendered and colourwashed, and features a steeply pitched pantile roof. The building has two storeys and attics, with a 1½ storey wing to the west, creating an L-shaped plan. The main range runs north-south and has a shaped north gable that includes an internal chimney stack. The windows have been significantly altered, with 20th-century wood and metal casements, and there are blocked window openings in the north gable as well as a blocked segmental-headed attic window in the south gable. To the south-east, there is a large external chimney stack with weathered offsets and a pantiled link to the main roof, although the top of the stack has been rebuilt. The 1½ storey wing at the north-west corner features a gabled dormer with a 3-light leaded casement on the south side, and a ground floor 3-light casement with a segmental head. The north side of the wing has 20th-century casements, and there is a small axial chimney stack.
Local climate
Orchard Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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