Chestnut Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Farmhouse.
Chestnut Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- knotted-balcony-jet
- 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
- Chestnut Farmhouse, Silver Green, Hempnall
- OS grid reference
- TM 255 932
- Coordinates
- 52.49035, 1.32101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century and early 18th century. The east range is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a steep corrugated iron roof with a brick-faced gable end that includes a chimney stack. The building has one storey and an attic, with a dormer that has a catslide roof. The west end is constructed of early 18th-century painted brick, has a steep roof with an internal stack in the end gable, and consists of two storeys and an attic, with two windows that are 18th-century three-light casements.
Local climate
Chestnut 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- No related consent applications matched
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