The Cottage, Diken Cottage, The Beams is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1984. A Late C17, early C19 House. 8 related planning applications.
The Cottage, Diken Cottage, The Beams
- WRENN ID
- vast-casement-autumn
- 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 Cottage, Diken Cottage, The Beams, King Street, New Buckenham, NR16 2AF
- OS grid reference
- TM 087 903
- Coordinates
- 52.4711, 1.07191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a range of three houses located on King Street in New Buckenham. The houses likely originated in the late 17th century, but were significantly altered in the early 19th century with a brick facade. The underlying timber frame structure remains. The roofs are pantiled, with black glazed pantiles to the rear. The houses are two storeys high. There are six 20th-century doors, and windows of varying dates from the 18th century to the late 20th century. The upper casement windows are largely from the late 18th century. The east house, known as The Cottage, features mid-18th century sash windows with glazing bars. A timber eaves cornice runs along the top of the building. The roofs are gabled, with bell-shaped gables. Two ridge stacks are present on the west house, called The Beams, and a partly external stack from the 17th century is visible on Diken Cottage.
Local climate
The Cottage, Diken Cottage, The Beams 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- 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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