Water Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1983. Water mill/residence.
Water Mill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-merlon-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1983
- Type
- Water mill/residence
- Address
- Water Mill Cottage, Wretham
- OS grid reference
- TL 926 906
- Coordinates
- 52.48016, 0.83498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Water Mill Cottage is a late 18th-century water mill that has been converted into a residence. The building is constructed of flint with gault brick dressings and features a half-hipped pantiled roof. The original lobby entrance plan has been altered. It stands two storeys tall with an attic. The facade includes a central doorway with a 20th-century gabled timber porch, and there are segmental heads over the casement windows on either side. The first floor has smaller windows. At the rear, there are 20th-century brick lean-to additions, along with an early 19th-century cast iron casement window on the first floor that has glazing bars. A similar window is located in the attic on the north gable wall, above a two-storey pantiled lean-to extension. Additionally, there are two attic lights from around the 1970s at the rear.
Local climate
Water Mill 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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