Flint Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1993. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Flint Cottages

WRENN ID
small-lancet-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 May 1993
Type
Cottage
Address
Flint Cottages, Shropham Road, Hockham, IP24 1NL
OS grid reference
TL 954 926
Coordinates
52.49697, 0.87735
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Flint Cottages is a row of cottages, now converted into one house, dating from the early 18th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 19th century. The building is constructed from flint and brick rubble, featuring brick dressings. It has a pantile roof with gable ends that include brick parapets, tumbling, and a finial at the southwest end. There are brick axial and gable end stacks.

The layout suggests that it was originally a pair of houses subdivided into three cottages, with outshuts added at the back in the 19th century. The exterior is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical five-window southeast front. The windows are small 19th and 20th century two-light casements with glazing bars set in brick openings with cambered arches. The doorways on the left and right sides have similar brick openings; the right-hand side features a plank door, while the left has a panelled door. The central window was originally a doorway. There is a plastered outshut on the right (northeast) end, and at the rear (northwest), there is a two-storey outshut on the right with a pantile lean-to roof and a single-storey outshut on the left with a slate lean-to roof.

Inside, the left (southwest) room, which remains a separate cottage, has a chamfered axial beam with long hollow step stops and a blocked fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel featuring cyma stops, along with flanking cupboards with panelled doors. The chamber above contains a mid-19th century grate. The central room has a reused or reset chamfered cross-beam with redundant mortices and a large brick fireplace with a renewed lintel. The larger right-hand (northeast) room features a chamfered cross-beam with long hollow step stops, a roughly chamfered cross-beam, and a large brick fireplace with an unchamfered timber lintel.

Local climate

Flint Cottages 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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