Rackhams is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. House.
Rackhams
- WRENN ID
- tattered-dormer-wax
- 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
- Rackhams, the Street, Earsham
- OS grid reference
- TM 322 891
- Coordinates
- 52.45057, 1.41697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rackhams is a 17th-century timber-framed house that has been rendered, with a brick-faced end wall. It features a steep pantile roof with gabled ends and an off-centre brick chimney stack. The building has two storeys and two widely spaced windows, which are early 19th-century 3 and 4-light casements. There is a central modern glazed door.
Local climate
Rackhams 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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