Lodge Cottage Approximately 370 Metres South East of Letton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1996. Cottage.

Lodge Cottage Approximately 370 Metres South East of Letton Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 November 1996
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
TF 973 055
Coordinates
52.61149, 0.91266
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lodge Cottage, located approximately 370 metres southeast of Letton Hall, is a pair of cottages that have been combined into a single dwelling. They date from the late 18th century to early 19th century and are possibly designed by Sir John Soane. The building is constructed of rendered brick with a mostly black-glazed pantile roof and features a rendered brick central ridge stack. It has a symmetrical plan in the Gothick style, standing two storeys high with a two-window range of two-light leaded casements above two similar leaded casements, all with Y-tracery and pointed arched heads. There are plank doors with similar heads at the far left and right.

A central projecting porch has a crow-stepped gable and side doorways, with evidence of a blocked arch at the front. The side elevations also display crow-stepped gables and tall two-light leaded windows that rise through both floors, again featuring Y-tracery and pointed arched heads. Above the gable is a quatrefoil window. The rear of the building has a full-length outshut with two-light casements, a door, and a brick stack.

Inside, the cottage features chamfered bridging beams, winder stairs, plank doors, dado panelling, and an open fireplace with a simple wooden surround and side cupboards. Although the cottages have been slightly altered, they form a cohesive group with the outbuilding range at the rear. Historically, these cottages are situated near Letton Hall, which was designed by Sir John Soane and built between 1783 and 1789. While there is no direct evidence linking these cottages to Soane, he was known to design Gothick cottages of a similar style at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire in 1791, making the attribution plausible.

Local climate

Lodge Cottage Approximately 370 Metres South East of Letton Hall 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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