The Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1983. Cottage.
The Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-tracery-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage, Merton
- OS grid reference
- TL 907 988
- Coordinates
- 52.55402, 0.81289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been combined into one dwelling, dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of clay lump on a brick plinth and features a thatched roof. The building is one storey with an attic and has two thatched gabled porches, each with round arched openings made of brick. There are four ground floor brick casement windows with ovolu hoods, likely added in the 1870s. The cottage has four gabled thatched dormers with casements and bargeboards. The roof is gabled, with the southern cottage being lower than the northern one. The northern gable is weatherboarded, and there is a rebuilt stack to the north, along with a double shafted square stack at the division of the cottages. At the rear, there is a single storey outshut that is pantiled and features a casement window.
Local climate
The Thatched 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 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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