Old Rectory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Old Rectory Farmhouse

WRENN ID
watchful-chalk-frost
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
Old Rectory Farmhouse, Rectory Road, Bunwell, NR16 1QU
OS grid reference
TM 119 938
Coordinates
52.50167, 1.12148
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Rectory Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-frame cottage that has been plastered. It features a thatched roof with gabled ends and is one storey high with an attic. The cottage has late 19th-century casement windows, two wedge-shaped dormers, and two plank doors. There is a brick chimney stack that is positioned off centre.

Local climate

Old Rectory 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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