Chestnut Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Chestnut Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scattered-portal-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Chestnut Tree Farmhouse, Walton Road, Forncett, NR16 1JE
- OS grid reference
- TM 175 924
- Coordinates
- 52.4868, 1.20216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut Tree Farmhouse is a long 17th or 18th century cottage made of plastered timber-frame, located on Forncett Walton Road in Forncett St Peter. It features a barn and stables at the east end, which are also constructed from plastered timber-frame. The building has a continuous pantile roof with gabled ends. The cottage itself is one storey with an attic, and includes 19th century and modern casement windows, along with two wedge-shaped dormers. There is an off-centre brick chimney stack. The barn is equipped with large double doors and a loft door situated above the stable. Additionally, there are lean-tos at the rear of the structure.
Local climate
Chestnut Tree 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 — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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