Puddled Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1984. A Post-Medieval Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Puddled Cottage

WRENN ID
worn-tin-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1984
Type
Cottage
Period
Post-Medieval
Address
Puddled Cottage, Fen Street, Old Buckenham, NR17 1NL
OS grid reference
TM 057 924
Coordinates
52.49077, 1.02844
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Puddled Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, which was restored in the 1980s. It features a timber frame with a wattle and daub interior, covered with rendered breeze blocks. The building has two storeys, with a door on the left side and three ground floor and three first floor 20th century replacement mullioned windows, all set under labelled hood moulds added in 1983. The roof is bell-shaped, gabled to the west and hipped to the east, with a central ridge stack. The rear of the cottage is similar in design. The east gable retains one original diamond mullioned window, while the bay to the west of the door is entirely of late 20th century construction. Inside, there is a thin scantling, rebuilt and altered fireplace, and tension bracing at the corners. The roof structure includes a tie beam with queen struts, collars, and clasped purlins.

Local climate

Puddled Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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