The Cottage and Corner Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1983. A Georgian Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage and Corner Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-ledge-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Cottage and Corner Cottage, Carbrooke Road, Griston, IP25 6QE
- OS grid reference
- TL 942 994
- Coordinates
- 52.55815, 0.86466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage and Corner Cottage are a pair of mid-18th century cottages located on Carbrooke Road in Griston. They are constructed from rendered clay lump and feature a gabled pantile roof. The cottages are two storeys high and have two doorways, positioned at the center and to the left. The windows are a mix of sashes and casements, with a stack situated above the central door and the inner north gable. There is a bow window on the south side, added around 1970. At the rear, there is a single-storey gabled kitchen wing with a pantiled roof and casement windows.
Local climate
The Cottage and Corner Cottage 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 79% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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