Washingford House is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Washingford House
- WRENN ID
- unlit-column-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Washingford House, Cookes Road, Bergh Apton
- OS grid reference
- TG 310 013
- Coordinates
- 52.561, 1.40797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Washingford House is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, with significant remodelling in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features colourwashed brick and hipped roofs covered in black-glazed pantiles, which are steeply pitched at the rear. The building has two storeys and an attic, with the attic storey added to the front range in the 19th century.
The south front was remodelled in the early 19th century and consists of six bays with sash windows that have glazing bars and architraves. There are segmental arches above the ground floor and first floor openings. A central canted bay made of red brick was added in the 20th century, reusing a tripartite sash window with a segmental head and radial glazing bars taken from the east wall, along with two side sashes featuring glazing bars. The bay has castellated parapets.
There are two ridge chimney stacks: a 19th-century stack to the west with a single octagonal shaft, and an earlier stack from around 1600 to the east, which has three octagonal shafts on moulded bases, one of which is decorated with ribs.
On the north side, there are two wings, each two storeys high with hipped roofs that maintain the original steep pitch. These wings have sash windows with glazing bars, although some first floor openings are blind. The ground floor windows have segmental heads. A lean-to structure between the wings features a tall semi-circular headed staircase window with glazing bars.
An inserted entrance doorway on the east wall has a semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars, along with a panelled entrance door and reveal. To the right of this doorway is a tripartite sash window that matches the one reset on the front elevation. Additionally, there is an early sash window with heavy-section glazing bars located on the west wall at first floor level. Some first floor rooms are adorned with coved plaster ceilings.
Local climate
Washingford House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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