Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the The Broads Authority local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 April 1955. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- outer-steel-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- The Broads Authority
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church Farmhouse, Horning Road, Hoveton, North Norfolk, NR12 8NY
- OS grid reference
- TG 309 178
- Coordinates
- 52.70904, 1.41789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse made up of two buildings that are joined together. It has origins dating back to the mid-16th century and has been altered in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The structure features a brick base on a flint plinth with some ashlar dressings and is topped with thatched roofs. The principal house is located to the east and is two storeys high with four bays. There is a door to the left of centre, set behind an early 19th-century timber case with an overlight. The ground floor has three sash windows under segmental heads, while the first floor has three sash windows under square heads, all of which have glazing bars.
On the east corner, there is a stepped 17th-century buttress, and to the left of the door, there is a 20th-century buttress. The corners of the building are accented with stone quoins, and the windows are in reduced openings with some 16th-century brickwork visible. The gabled roof has internal end stacks, with the eastern stack dating from the 20th century and the western stack from the 16th century, featuring a square plinth and three drum flues. The gables are supported on kneelers. At the rear, there are two sloping buttresses and a central 20th-century door. To the right, there is one sash window and four sash windows on the first floor, all with glazing bars. There is an outshut to the left of the door and the remains of an arched door to its right in a wall of 16th-century brick. A dormer in the roof has a 20th-century casement.
The western part of the farmhouse is one storey with a dormer attic. It has two doors, one of which is set under a segmental arch. The ground floor has three casement windows and features a dentil eaves cornice below the gabled roof. There are three dormers with 20th-century casements. The roof of this section has two tiers of taper-tenoned butt purlins and collars, while the roof of the eastern house is not accessible. The interiors of both buildings have been completely altered.
Local climate
Church Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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