Culpher Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. A C17 Residential. 3 related planning applications.
Culpher Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- turning-gutter-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Culpher Farmhouse, Bridge Road, Burston and Shimpling, IP22 5TH
- OS grid reference
- TM 135 841
- Coordinates
- 52.41367, 1.13926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century timber-frame farmhouse, later plastered. It has a lower-pitched roof with gabled ends covered in black glazed pantiles. The house is L-shaped. The north elevation has three widely-spaced 19th-century casement windows and a central modern glazed porch. The east side features five modern casement windows. Inside, the ceilings display chamfered beams. This building has group value.
Local climate
Culpher 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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