Barkers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1983. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Barkers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-mortar-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Barkers Cottage, Ragmere Road, Old Buckenham, NR17 1PN
- OS grid reference
- TM 066 905
- Coordinates
- 52.47378, 1.04136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barkers Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on Ragmere Road in Old Buckenham. It is constructed from flint and clay lump and features a thatched roof covered with corrugated iron. The cottage has two storeys, with a central half-glazed panelled door flanked by one sash window with glazing bars on each side. On the first floor, there are two 2-light casements. The building has overhanging eaves, bargeboards, and drip shelves at the gable heads. Inside, there are chamfered ceiling beams. A single-storey outbuilding with a pantiled roof is attached to the north wall of the cottage.
Local climate
Barkers 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 85% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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