The Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
The Retreat
- WRENN ID
- tall-rampart-peregrine
- 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 Retreat, Market Place (North East Corner), New Buckenham, NR16 2AN
- OS grid reference
- TM 089 905
- Coordinates
- 52.47247, 1.07431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat is a house located in New Buckenham, dating from the late 16th century. It was remodeled around 1750, refaced around 1840, and restored in the 1970s. The building features a timber frame with wattle and daub infill behind a brick exterior and has a slate roof. It is two storeys high, with a central door set in a moulded case beneath a dentilled cornice. There is one sash window on each side of the door and three more on the first floor, all of which are late 20th-century additions under gauged skewback arches. The eaves cornice is coffered and features dentils. The roof is gabled with internal gable stacks.
At the rear, there are two 18th-century gabled wings that form an F shape, with 20th-century detailing. Between these wings stands a 16th-century gabled privy tower, which also has 20th-century windows. The interior has been significantly altered but retains close studding in the exposed framing, chamfered bridging beams, and a 19th-century king post roof in the front range.
Local climate
The Retreat 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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