1, 2 and 3 Nunnery Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
1, 2 and 3 Nunnery Cottages
- WRENN ID
- bitter-crypt-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, 2 and 3 Nunnery Cottages, Nunnery Place, Nuns Bridges Road, Thetford
- OS grid reference
- TL 872 822
- Coordinates
- 52.40655, 0.75142
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 1, 2, and 3 Nunnery Cottages form a range of three houses. Number 3 dates to the late 16th century and was remodelled in 1857; Nos 1 and 2 were built entirely in 1857. The construction is of rendered flint, clunch, and brick, with a slate roof. The arrangement is two storeys high. Number 3 was originally part of the inner gateway to a monastic precinct. Access to Number 3 is through a 20th-century door beneath a gabled porch. The ground floor has a single top-hung window on each side, with the opening light featuring glazing bars. Hoods in the form of lozenge labels are above the windows. Three similar first-floor casements are also present. Number 2 has a 20th-century door and a gabled hood over two bays of similar windows on each floor to the left. Number 1 has a 20th-century door with a hood on a lozenge label, and one similar window on the ground floor and two to the first floor. A foliated crest bearing the date 1857 is centrally positioned at first-floor level. The roof is gabled, with three chimney stacks. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
1, 2 and 3 Nunnery Cottages 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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