The Wilderness is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1987. House. 8 related planning applications.
The Wilderness
- WRENN ID
- hidden-latch-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Wilderness, Loddon Road, Broome, NR35 2RJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 349 920
- Coordinates
- 52.47571, 1.45751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wilderness is a house dating from the 17th century, with later alterations. It is timber-framed, with the front and one gable clad in red brick, and the rest of the external walls rendered and whitewashed. The steeply-pitched roof is covered with black glazed pantiles. The house is rectangular in plan, with two storeys and attics. There is a range of three widely spaced windows on the front elevation, featuring 20th-century three-light casements. A glazed door is positioned off-centre to the left. Segmental arches top all ground-floor openings. An axial chimney stack is located off-centre to the right. The gables have attic casements. On the rear wall are 2-light and 5-light mullioned windows, while all other windows are 20th-century replacements. A pantiled wedge dormer is set into the rear roof slope.
Local climate
The Wilderness 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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