1 and 2, High Houses is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
1 and 2, High Houses
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-shingle-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1 and 2, High Houses, Thompson
- OS grid reference
- TL 919 967
- Coordinates
- 52.53487, 0.82798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of semi-detached houses dating from the mid-18th century. The houses are constructed of brick with a pantiled gable roof. They have a symmetrical facade of five bays, with two central doorways alternating with casement windows – the westernmost window being renewed. Doors and windows are set within gauged skewback arches, beneath a flat brick string course. The first floor has four casement windows, with the windows in No. 1 being renewed and also featuring gauged skewback arches. A central window on the first floor is blind. A dentiled eaves cornice runs along the top of the houses, leading to a low parapet on the gables. There are stacks (chimneys) located to the left of the centre and at the east gable. The gable heads originally featured tumbling, which has now been rendered over. 20th-century additions have been made to the rear of the properties.
Local climate
1 and 2, High Houses 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 84% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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 — 7 transactions since 1995
- 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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