The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1958. A C17 House.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- slow-newel-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old House, the Green, Caston
- OS grid reference
- TL 959 975
- Coordinates
- 52.54077, 0.88743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is a mid-17th century house located in Caston on The Green. It features a timber frame with rendered brick infill and a thatched roof, designed in an L shape. The building stands two storeys tall on a flint plinth. A door, added in the 1970s, is situated in a fluted case to the right of the centre. The ground floor has three renewed casement windows, while four similar windows are found in the original openings beneath the eaves. The roof is gabled with an eccentric ridge stack on the left and a south external gable stack. At the rear, there is a cross wing covered with pantiles. The east gable is parapeted and includes tumbling and an internal stack. The ground floor has renewed casements, and there is a flat-topped dormer in the roof added in the late 20th century.
Local climate
The Old House 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 84% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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