Boronia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. Cottage.

Boronia Cottage

WRENN ID
still-postern-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 February 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Boronia Cottage, Norwich Road, Yaxham
OS grid reference
TG 007 105
Coordinates
52.65535, 0.96652
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Boronia Cottage is a cottage dated 1611, as indicated by the inscription on the east gable. It features a rendered timber frame and a decorative plain tile roof. The south facade is faced with brick, and the building has two storeys with an attic. The north facade includes four 19th-century two-light casement windows with horizontal glazing bars. There is an off-centre front door that is boarded, topped with a small sloping hood supported by shaped brackets. An off-centre axial stack has four inter-connecting angled shafts.

Local climate

Boronia Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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