Hurdle-Maker's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Hurdle-Maker's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- white-lintel-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hurdle-Maker's Cottage, Cranworth
- OS grid reference
- TF 997 032
- Coordinates
- 52.59007, 0.94783
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hurdle-Maker's Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century and later. It features a rendered timber frame with a thatched roof and stands one and a half storeys tall. The exterior includes three 20th-century casement windows and a boarded central front door. There are single dormer windows at the front and rear, and a largely rebuilt off-centre axial stack. Inside, the timber frame is visible, showcasing a spinal bridging joist and stop-chamfered common joists in the main ground floor room. There are also 20th-century lean-tos added to the sides and rear.
Local climate
Hurdle-Maker's 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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