Shadwell Estate Houses is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1983. Cottage.
Shadwell Estate Houses
- WRENN ID
- carved-alcove-weasel
- 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
- Shadwell Estate Houses, Brettenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 934 832
- Coordinates
- 52.41302, 0.84275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shadwell Estate Houses are three connected cottages built in the 1870s, with one currently serving as a Post Office. Constructed from brick, they feature a tiled gable roof and stand one and a half storeys tall. The cottages are arranged in a longitudinal range with a cross wing, displaying an asymmetrical elevation in the Jacobean style. Notable architectural features include round-headed doorways and flat-topped casements set under segmental arches on the ground floor, while the first floor has pointed arches with a decorative diaper of glazed tiles in the spandrels. The cross wing has a tall stepped gable, and to the right, there is a smaller gable above the roof line, flanked by a pair of eaves dormers. The end walls also have stepped gables, with external stacks, and there are three groups of ridge stacks featuring double shafts made of moulded brick.
Local climate
Shadwell Estate Houses 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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