House Immediately East of Spinky Den and the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1960. House.

House Immediately East of Spinky Den and the Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 May 1960
Type
House
Address
House Immediately East of Spinky Den and the Cottage, Church Close, Shipdham
OS grid reference
TF 958 073
Coordinates
52.6284, 0.89211
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This house, located immediately east of Spinky Den and the Cottage in Shipdham, dates from the 15th to the 18th century. It features a rendered timber frame with a masonry west gable-end made of coursed brick and flint, displaying tumbling-in. The building is one and a half storeys tall and has a facade with four 19th-century two-light casement windows and a part-glazed panelled front door. The east gable shows the remains of a two-light mullion window, and there are gable-end stacks on the exterior of the east side. There are extensive outbuildings made of brick and clay lump at the rear, which are not of special interest.

Local climate

House Immediately East of Spinky Den and the 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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