The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1983. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-gable-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, Bridgham, NR16 2RU
- OS grid reference
- TL 968 860
- Coordinates
- 52.4372, 0.89432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 18th-century cottage, with later alterations. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. Originally, it had a three-room plan, featuring a central stack and fireplace. The front facade faces the street and includes a modern doorway offset to the right, and three small windows to the left. An attic dormer has a double-casement window set beneath the thatched roof. The eaves strongly project outwards. The rear of the cottage has a scattered arrangement of 20th-century windows set in the original openings, and a 20th-century doorway is located to the west. The cottage has been extensively altered in the 20th century.
Local climate
The Thatched Cottage 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 6 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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