Cockley Cley Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. Museum.

Cockley Cley Museum

WRENN ID
strange-string-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 April 1987
Type
Museum
OS grid reference
TF 794 040
Coordinates
52.60499, 0.64905
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cockley Cley Museum is a former farmhouse that has been converted into a local history museum. It dates from the 17th century and underwent significant refurbishment in the 18th century. The original timber frame has mostly been replaced with masonry, which consists of flint and brick, featuring random headers and keyed dressings. The building has a pantile roof and a lobby entrance type plan, with two storeys.

The facade displays four symmetrically placed casement windows with glazing bars: three lights beneath segmental arches on the ground floor and two lights on the upper floor. There are two boarded doors, also beneath segmental arches, one located opposite the stack and the other in the easternmost bay. An off-centre axial stack from the 17th century has two interconnecting angled shafts. A fragment of the original timber frame can be seen at the rear, showing the wall plate and wall posts of the original single-storeyed house with an attic. Inside, there is an original winding stair located on the entrance side of the stack, and a doorway to the upper floor features an ogee and nicked chamfer stop. The easternmost bay is an 18th-century addition, which leaves the original timber-framed end wall as a partition.

Local climate

Cockley Cley Museum 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 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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