Bakehouse Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.

Bakehouse Cottage

WRENN ID
young-wattle-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1984
Type
House
Address
Bakehouse Cottage, King Street, New Buckenham, NR16 2AF
OS grid reference
TM 087 903
Coordinates
52.47113, 1.07237
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bakehouse Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century. It is timber framed with wattle and daub infill and features a thatched roof. The front of the building was altered, likely in the late 17th century, when an additional bay was added to the west. The cottage has two storeys set on a brick plinth. There is a central door with 18th-century casement windows on both sides, and two more 18th-century casements on the first floor. The gabled roof has overhanging eaves, and there is an internal ridge stack on the eastern side, along with a subsidiary stack to the right of center. At the rear, there is a mid-20th-century brick lean-to extension, and two renewed casements are located under the eaves.

Inside, the dining room features very heavy scantling and close studding. The original exterior framing of the west wall is now free-standing. There is a plain chamfered bridging beam and a renewed fireplace. The roof consists of tie beams, collars, and clasped purlins. A window in the original west gable has been blocked, and some windbracing is present.

Local climate

Bakehouse Cottage 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% 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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