Low Common Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1983. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Low Common Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-footing-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Low Common Cottage, Thompson, IP25 6QG
- OS grid reference
- TL 928 980
- Coordinates
- 52.54604, 0.84269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Common Cottage is a building that dates from the early 18th century and consists of two cottages that have been combined into one. It features a timber frame with clay lump infill set on a brick plinth, topped with a thatched roof. The structure is 1½ storeys high. The entrance door is located to the left of the center, with three renewed casement windows to the right in their original openings and a small window to the left. A central first-floor casement window interrupts the eaves line and retains its leaded lights. The roof is gabled and half-hipped to the west above a weatherboarded gable head, with chimney stacks positioned to the right and left of the center. There is a one-bay addition to the east, which is weatherboarded and thatched, dating from the late 20th century, along with 20th-century casements at the rear.
Local climate
Low Common 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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