Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1983. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-clay-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Church Cottage, the Street, Croxton
- OS grid reference
- TL 873 866
- Coordinates
- 52.44587, 0.75531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the east side of The Street in Croxton. It is constructed of flint with brick dressings, and has a pantiled roof. The cottage is one storey in height with an attic. The front features a central door flanked by two windows, all set beneath segmental arches. These windows are 18th-century sash windows. The front elevation was rendered around 1960. There are slightly projecting eaves. The north gable has two attic casements and an internal stack.
Local climate
Church 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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