Willow Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Willow Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
young-timber-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Willow Tree Cottage, Garboldisham Road, South Lopham, IP22 2HW
OS grid reference
TM 032 815
Coordinates
52.39462, 0.98518
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Willow Tree Cottage is a mid-17th century cottage that features a timber frame with rendered wattle and daub infill set on a brick plinth, topped with a thatched roof. The building is one storey high with a dormer attic. The entrance door is located to the right of the center, and there are two 19th-century casement windows. The gabled roof includes two eyebrow dormers, which also have 19th-century casements. A central ridge stack is present, and to the right, there is a one-storey outshut with a pantiled roof and an internal gable stack on the left. The timber frame is constructed of thin scantling, featuring tongue-stopped bridging beams and a rebuilt fireplace. The roof structure consists of collars and clasped purlins.

Local climate

Willow Tree 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • 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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