Cobbler's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1995. Cottage.

Cobbler's Cottage

WRENN ID
slow-cornice-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 May 1995
Type
Cottage
Address
Cobbler's Cottage, the Street, North Lopham
OS grid reference
TM 035 836
Coordinates
52.41332, 0.99132
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cobbler's Cottage is a cottage, originally two cottages, dating from around 1600, with flooring added around 1730 and an extension to the north in the mid-18th century. It features a timber frame with rendered wattle and daub cladding and a thatched roof. The building is one storey high with a dormer attic. The east front has two 18th-century plank doors, each accompanied by a 3-light 18th-century casement window to its right. The gabled roof includes two gabled dormers, one fitted with a 2-light casement from the 18th century and the other from the 19th century. There is a ridge stack positioned to the right of the center and an external gable-end stack on the north side. The south gable has late 20th-century weatherboarding. The rear (west) front features one 19th-century plank door and one 3-light casement window.

Inside, the timber frame consists of thin scantling with tension braces connecting the principal studs to the wall plate, and the principal studs have reversed top jowls. The roof structure is not visible. There is an inserted chamfered bridging beam in the south room and a chamfered spine beam in the north room. A tie beam in the south room has been cut at attic level for a former passageway, and there is a fireplace in the south room that includes a former bread oven.

Local climate

Cobbler's 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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