Careys Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Careys Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-eave-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Careys Cottage, Church Street, Kenninghall
- OS grid reference
- TM 040 860
- Coordinates
- 52.43391, 0.99987
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Careys Cottage is a house dating from around 1600. It is timber framed with rendered wattle and daub infill and has a thatched roof. The building features a lobby entrance plan and stands two storeys tall. The central door is from the 20th century, with a restored three-light mullioned side window to the left. There are three casement windows from the 19th or 20th century on the ground floor and three more on the first floor, with the leftmost window being leaded. The cottage has a gable roof with a central ridge stack. To the west, there is a one-and-a-half storey pantiled extension, and at the rear, there is a full-height pantiled kitchen extension, along with a 20th-century conservatory and fenestration.
Inside, the timber framing is closely studded with heavy scantling. The lounge features a bridging beam with sunk quadrant mouldings and tongue and groove stops. The west upper room retains a tie beam supported by tension braces and has a blocked four-light diamond mullion window. The roof structure includes collars with clasped purlins, butt purlins below, diminished principals, and straight windbracing.
Local climate
Careys 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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