The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-pinnacle-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, the Street, North Lopham
- OS grid reference
- TM 035 828
- Coordinates
- 52.40585, 0.99135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of rendered clay lump and features a thatched roof set on a brick plinth. The layout follows a baffle entry plan and consists of one storey with a dormer attic. There are two doors, one on the right and one on the left, along with three 18th-century casement windows. The cottage has a gabled roof and a plain tiled gabled dormer situated above the right door. Additionally, there is a rebuilt central ridge stack and an external stack on the south gable.
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 89% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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