Littlebeck Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1991. House. 1 related planning application.

Littlebeck Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 February 1991
Type
House
Address
Littlebeck Farmhouse, Littlebeck Lane, Brooke, NR15 1ET
OS grid reference
TM 287 976
Coordinates
52.52889, 1.37122
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Littlebeck Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 19th century, with a 17th-century wing at the rear. It features a combination of brick and rendered timber frame construction, topped with a hipped glazed black pantile roof. The farmhouse has a 19th-century three-cell layout, while the rear retains a two-cell lobby entrance plan from the 17th century.

The front facade is regular and consists of three bays, with two storeys and 16-pane sash windows. A central porch with pilasters and a moulded flat hood leads to a six-panel door, where the top two panels are glazed, and the reveals are panelled. There are sash windows on either side of the door, set under a segmental arch, and three sashes on the first floor, with the central window having 12 panes. A plain brick cornice runs along the top, and there are two stacks on the rear wall of this section, connected by a narrow linking bay to the earlier two-bay range, which is also two storeys tall.

The ground floor has a 20th-century glass lean-to, and the upper floor features 20th-century windows. The rear wing has an exposed timber frame interior, with a heavy chamfer on the transverse beam and elaborately carved stops. The principal post is carved with a debased capital, while the respond appears to have been carved later in imitation.

Local climate

Littlebeck 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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