Chestnuts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Chestnuts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vacant-rotunda-lark
- 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
- Chestnuts Farmhouse, Lundy Green, Hempnall, NR15 2NU
- OS grid reference
- TM 244 924
- Coordinates
- 52.4841, 1.30429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnuts Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-frame house. The exterior has been plastered, with a brick gable end at the south, incorporating a chimney stack. The roof is thatched, with gabled ends, and has a brick stack positioned off-centre. The house is one storey high with an attic, containing two gabled dormers. Windows are 19th-century casements. A moulded doorcase with a pediment frames a panelled door. A 19th-century brick lean-to has been added to the north end.
Local climate
Chestnuts 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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