Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- high-newel-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, Lower Road, Bunwell, NR16 1SL
- OS grid reference
- TM 127 929
- Coordinates
- 52.4931, 1.13219
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-frame cottage. The south end of the building was later faced with brick in the 18th century and features a brick chimney stack. It has a thatched roof with gabled ends. The cottage is two storeys high and has one window, now fitted with a modern casement. A later gabled porch with a thatched roof was added to the centre of the building.
Local climate
Church 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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