Priory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Priory Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sunken-latch-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Priory Farmhouse, St Mary's Road, Aldeby, NR34 0BH
OS grid reference
TM 450 932
Coordinates
52.48225, 1.60723
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Priory Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with a date of 1719 marked on the tie irons of the north gable. It is constructed from brick and flint, with some areas rendered and others colourwashed, and features steeply pitched pantile roofs. The building has two storeys and attics, with an irregular E-shaped plan.

At the south end, the house includes a two-storey outbuilding. The west elevation, facing the road, has four staged brick buttresses against a rendered wall, with 20th-century door and window openings that have segmental heads. The west elevation of the house itself is rendered and ashlared, featuring two ground floor and two first floor sash windows without glazing bars. The ground floor openings have keyblocks, and the doorway between the windows has exposed red brickwork, showing a rubbed and keyed arch above it, with rendered pilasters.

The double pile south-east cross wing is made of brick and has a blocked first floor window opening with a square brick drip. The ground floor opening has been reduced and features a pegged oak frame, with the mullions removed. It has a coped and parapeted gable. The northern pile of the cross wing has 20th-century casements and a gable parapet with tumbling-in at the base; the north wall is rendered and ashlared.

To the north-east, there is a 2.5-storey projection made of brick, partly whitewashed and partly rendered and ashlared, with a gable parapet and corbelled eaves. A large external gable stack has a square rendered shaft, and there are two blocked circular attic windows in the gable. The north wall features two cross casements with leaded glazing, and there is a 20th-century flat-roofed dormer on the north side roof slope. The roof over the south range has square-set triangular section butt purlins and collars between the principal rafters.

Local climate

Priory Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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