Fairstead Lane Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Farmhouse.
Fairstead Lane Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scattered-marble-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fairstead Lane Farmhouse, Hempnall
- OS grid reference
- TM 235 950
- Coordinates
- 52.50756, 1.29221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fairstead Lane Farmhouse is a 17th century timber-frame house that is faced and painted with brick. It features a steep pantile roof with gabled ends and has an off-centre brick chimney stack. The building has one storey and an attic, along with one gabled dormer. The windows are casements with glazing bars, and the ground floor windows have gothick lights.
Local climate
Fairstead Lane Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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