The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1984. House.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-corbel-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, Church Lane, Old Buckenham
- OS grid reference
- TM 067 914
- Coordinates
- 52.48141, 1.04377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a house dating from around 1700. It is timber framed with rendered wattle and daub and features a thatched roof. The building has two storeys set on a brick plinth. There is a door on the right side and four ground floor casement windows from the 18th or early 19th century. The first floor has four similar windows located under the eaves. The gabled roof has a rebuilt ridge stack positioned to the left of the center. An outshut extends from the east gable, covered with a pantiled roof and featuring 20th-century windows. There is also a one-storey gabled and pantiled extension to the west from the 19th century, which is not included in the listing.
Local climate
The Thatched 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 85% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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