Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gentle-loft-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Farmhouse, Norwich Road, Tacolneston, NR16 1BY
- OS grid reference
- TM 143 946
- Coordinates
- 52.50749, 1.15679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Farmhouse is a late 16th century to early 17th century house located on Norwich Road in Tacolneston. It features a plastered timber-frame construction set on a brick plinth, with steep tiled roofs and gabled ends. The west end has a brick section with a corbelled gable parapet and a moulded chimney stack that includes two octagonal flues. The house is L-shaped in plan and has a two-storey structure with an attic, featuring attic windows in the gable ends. The southeast wing has a similar external chimney stack on its east side. The windows include 18th century mullion and transom casements, some of which have leaded panes, while the southeast wing showcases 17th century ovolo moulded mullion windows. At the rear, there is a one-storey and attic wing that is also plastered timber-frame, with a tiled roof and gabled end, along with an external brick chimney stack.
Local climate
Old 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 89% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2006
- 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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