Lakes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Farmhouse.
Lakes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muffled-flagstone-finch
- 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
- Lakes Farmhouse, Hall Road, Tacolneston
- OS grid reference
- TM 137 951
- Coordinates
- 52.51214, 1.14906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lakes Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-frame cottage that has been fronted in red brick in the 20th century, with the remainder of the building plastered. It features a steep pantile roof with gabled ends. The windows are modern casements, and there are modern flat roof dormers and glazed doors. At the rear, there is a lean-to structure. The cottage has an off-centre brick chimney stack and another chimney at one end.
Local climate
Lakes 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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