Corporation Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Corporation Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- last-landing-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Corporation Farmhouse, Wymondham Road, Bracon Ash, NR14 8EU
- OS grid reference
- TM 159 999
- Coordinates
- 52.55412, 1.18341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a lobby-entrance type farmhouse dating to the 17th century with later alterations. The facade is of colour-washed brick and gault brick, with a black pantiled roof. It is two storeys high with an attic, and originally had six bays of 2 and 3-light casement windows with glazing bars, set beneath rendered skewback arches with keystones. One bay is canted, with French windows and sashes with glazing bars.
A staircase is located in an outshut to the rear, featuring a curved gable and a flat-hooded doorcase with plain consoles, a pulvinated frieze, and a raised and fielded panelled door. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped to one end, a feature added in the 18th or 19th century. A central axial stack has three original angled shafts alongside later gault brick shafts. A single dormer is present at the rear.
Inside, there is an original winding stair which leads from the first floor to the attic. The roof structure consists of eight principal trusses with collars and butt-purlins. The first floor retains some fine ovolo-moulded beams with elaborate stops.
Local climate
Corporation 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 85% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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