Wilderness Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. House. 3 related planning applications.
Wilderness Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- half-flint-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wilderness Farmhouse, Short Green, Winfarthing, IP22 2EE
- OS grid reference
- TM 101 862
- Coordinates
- 52.43344, 1.08974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wilderness Farmhouse is a 17th-century house built with a timber frame and plastered exterior. It features a steep pantile roof with gabled ends and an off-centre brick chimney stack. The building has two storeys and four widely spaced windows. On the ground floor, there are modern casement windows, a modern bay window on the left, and a fielded panel and glazed door on the right, along with another modern glazed door. The first floor has a probably early 18th-century casement window with small panes on the right, two 19th-century casement windows in the centre, and a modern casement window on the left.
Local climate
Wilderness Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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