The Flints Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1983. Cottage.
The Flints Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-flint-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Flints Cottage, Wretham
- OS grid reference
- TL 898 915
- Coordinates
- 52.48851, 0.79526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Flints Cottage is a barn that was converted into a house around 1800. It features a flint construction with red brick additions and gault brick facings. The roof is hipped and covered with pantiles, with the sections over the house finished in black glaze. The barn section includes two round-headed doorways and two upper windows on either side, which have been reduced in size but still retain some original glazing bars. The house has been largely rebuilt up to the first floor, with original openings blocked using red brick. There are two small windows on the ground floor that feature 19th-century glazing bars, while the remaining windows are 20th-century casements. A red brick chimney stack is located over the partition between the barn and the house, and there is a gault brick stack to the right that serves the kitchen. There is also a doorway at the rear.
Local climate
The Flints 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 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 65% 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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