Tunbeck Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Tunbeck Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- deep-brass-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Tunbeck Farmhouse, Alburgh Road, Wortwell, IP20 0HP
- OS grid reference
- TM 275 851
- Coordinates
- 52.41739, 1.34434
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tunbeck Farmhouse is a 17th and 18th century timber-frame house, with plastered walls. It has a steep pantile roof with gabled ends, and a brick chimney stack positioned off-centre. A coved eaves soffit runs along the roofline. The house is two storeys high with an attic space, and features two gabled dormers. The front facade has a three-window arrangement, with 18th and 19th century three-light casement windows. A moulded doorcase with a cornice and a panelled door are on the right-hand side. A modern glazed porch has been added to the left-hand side.
Local climate
Tunbeck Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 66% 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.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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