Cuckoo Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1983. Lodge.

Cuckoo Lodge

WRENN ID
under-entrance-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 August 1983
Type
Lodge
Address
Cuckoo Lodge, Merton, Thetford, IP25 6QT
OS grid reference
TL 899 983
Coordinates
52.55011, 0.80072
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cuckoo Lodge is a former lodge to Merton Hall, now a private house, built in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of flint with gault brick dressings and has a corrugated tile roof. It is one storey high with a dormer attic and features a brick plinth. The ground floor has two three-light brick cross mullioned casements, each topped with pediments, and a central brick pier. There are two gabled dormers at the eaves, which contain brick casements and bargeboards. The west wall also has two similar pedimented windows on the ground floor. The roof is gabled and includes a central twin-shafted square stack. At the rear, there is a mid-20th century outshut that abuts under the eaves.

Local climate

Cuckoo Lodge 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 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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