Prospect Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. A C16 House.
Prospect Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- old-attic-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Prospect Farmhouse, Shelton Common, Shelton and Hardwick
- OS grid reference
- TM 237 900
- Coordinates
- 52.4625, 1.29294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prospect Farmhouse is a 16th century timber-framed house that has been rendered. It features a steeply pitched roof, gabled at the south-west end and half hippled at the north-east end, which is clad in wood shingles. The house has an off-centre brick chimney stack and stands two storeys high with a range of four windows, which are modern casements. There is a small modern gabled porch and a one-storey lean-to on the north-east end.
Local climate
Prospect 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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