Friars Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1959. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Friars Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-truss-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1959
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Friars Farmhouse, Church Street, Morningthorpe and Fritton, NR15 2QL
- OS grid reference
- TM 217 925
- Coordinates
- 52.48593, 1.26465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Friars Farmhouse is a large early 17th-century timber-frame house located on the west side of Church Street in Morning Thorpe. The house is plastered and features a black glazed pantile roof, with gabled cross wings at each end. The north wing has a large external brick chimney stack on its north side, which includes octagonal flues with moulded brick bases. There is also an internal brick stack at the junction with the north wing, featuring diagonally set shafts. The building has two storeys and an attic, with attic windows located in the gable ends. Most of the windows are 18th or 19th-century three-light casements, some of which have leaded panes. A central brick porch from the 19th century is present, which is two storeys high and features a stepped gable, along with a doorcase that has a moulded architrave and a fielded panel door. Additionally, there is a 19th-century brick canted bay on the ground floor of the north wing.
Local climate
Friars 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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