Beech Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1984. Cottage.
Beech Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-buttress-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Beech Cottage, School Road, Elsing
- OS grid reference
- TG 053 172
- Coordinates
- 52.71418, 1.03834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech Cottage is a former cottage from the Elsing Hall estate, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of colourwashed brick and features a hipped thatched roof. Designed in the Gothic style, the cottage is one storey high with an attic. The front facade has three bays, including two 2-light windows with 2-centred Y-tracery and single metal casements. The central entrance is a 2-centred door also adorned with Y-traceried cover strips. At the rear, there are two recessed dormers, each with 2-light casement windows. The cottage has a single central axial stack and has later lean-to extensions on the side and rear.
Local climate
Beech Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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