Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. House.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-ashlar-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Cottage, 6, Mangate Street, Swaffham
- OS grid reference
- TF 821 090
- Coordinates
- 52.64857, 0.69053
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a house dating from around 1700, constructed of knapped flint with red brick dressings and a pantiled roof. The building has two storeys and the entrance front faces south. It features an irregular six-window arrangement of two-light cross-casements with segmental heads and brick surrounds. The original windows are located on the first floor to the left, center, and right, while the remaining windows are 20th-century replacements. The left window on the ground floor is blind and painted to look like a window. A central half-glazed door, which is from the 20th century, is located under a hood. The roof is gabled with internal gable-end stacks on the east and west sides, the latter dating back to around 1700. The north side of the house has a five-window range of renewed two-light cross-casements, with a rebuilt wall stack in the center. There is a part-glazed door and a single-storey extension on the right side. The west gable features diaper brickwork and a panel beneath the stack made of moulded brick, which represents the crossed keys of St Peter. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Church 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 82% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
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