Grange Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Hall house.
Grange Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-cinder-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- Grange Cottage, Church Street, Kenninghall
- OS grid reference
- TM 044 857
- Coordinates
- 52.4312, 1.00584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grange Cottage is a hall house dating from the mid-16th century, with later alterations and additions. It is timber framed with roughcast wattle and daub infill, topped by a thatched roof. The building has one storey and a dormer attic, featuring a 20th-century outshut on the left side. The ground floor includes three 20th-century casements and one 18th-century casement. The gabled roof has three eyebrow dormers, each fitted with 20th-century windows. A ridge stack is positioned to the right, inserted between the hall and solar. The rear windows are mostly from the 20th century, but there are two early 19th-century casements in the eyebrow dormers. A 20th-century pantiled outshut is located on the left.
Inside, the lounge, which was formerly the hall, features a 17th-century inserted fireplace and ceiling. The bressummer has tongue stops, and the bridging beam is chamfered and tongue stopped. The close studded framing is made of heavy scantling. The screens passage to the south is now only open studded, with blocked doors in the exterior walls; the eastern door is further obscured by a 18th or 19th-century winder staircase. There are two square-headed service doors leading from the screens passage to the kitchen, one of which is blocked. A partitioned beam between the buttery and pantry has mortices for muntins, and a blocked four-light diamond mullioned window looks into the south extension. The room north of the stack has a chamfered bridging beam and a five-light diamond mullioned window opening into a 10th-century outshut. The roof features tie beams on arched braces, with the ties cut to form doorways, supporting queen struts, though the roof has been much altered. Fragments of further mullioned windows can be found under the eaves.
Local climate
Grange Cottage 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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