Field Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. A 16th century Farmhouse.
Field Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pale-passage-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- 16th century
- Address
- Field Cottage, Blackmoor Row, Shipdham
- OS grid reference
- TF 970 069
- Coordinates
- 52.62439, 0.90995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Field Cottage is a derelict farmhouse, likely dating from the 16th century and later. It features a rendered timber frame and a roof made of thatch and corrugated iron. The building is one and a half storeys tall, with a narrower end bay. The facade includes two 3-light windows with metal casements and two boarded doors. On the first floor, there are similar 2-light windows, one of which has leaded glazing. The cottage has one axial stack, which was formerly at the gable end, and a later gable-end stack.
Local climate
Field Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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