Blackthorn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1977. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Blackthorn Farmhouse

WRENN ID
deep-forge-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 February 1977
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Blackthorn Farmhouse, Bush Green, Pulham Market, IP21 4YB
OS grid reference
TM 211 877
Coordinates
52.44293, 1.25311
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blackthorn Farmhouse is a 17th-century building that has been fronted in 19th-century yellow brick. It features a steeply pitched black glazed pantile roof with gabled ends and stands two storeys high with an attic. The façade includes two late 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars, a late 19th-century gabled brick porch at the centre, and a splayed bay on the right. A central brick chimney stack is present, along with an attic window in the gable end. To the left, there is a late 19th-century gabled cross wing that is one storey and an attic, featuring sashes without glazing bars and shaped barge boards.

Local climate

Blackthorn Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 66% 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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