Picton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Farmhouse.
Picton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- drifting-vestry-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Picton Farmhouse, Picton Road, Tharston and Hapton
- OS grid reference
- TM 188 936
- Coordinates
- 52.49689, 1.22296
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Picton Farmhouse is a 16th-century timber-frame house that has been plastered. The end walls are faced with brick, and the north end features a parapeted gable. It has a steep tiled roof with gabled ends and an off-centre brick chimney stack that has four octagonal flues with moulded bases. The building is two storeys high with an attic, which includes attic windows in the gable ends. There are 18th and 19th-century modern casements, along with one small three-light mullion window located under the eaves. A small modern gabled wing is present on the west side, while a large modern one-storey bay is located at the south end. Additionally, there is a modern flat roof addition on the north end.
Local climate
Picton Farmhouse 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 89% 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 65% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2025
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