The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Farmhouse.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-corbel-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Cottage, Crown Road, Colkirk
- OS grid reference
- TF 920 264
- Coordinates
- 52.80107, 0.84778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a former farmhouse dating from around 1800 and later. It features rendered masonry with black pantile roofs. A rear wing, including the northernmost bay of the facade, was added to create an L-shaped plan. The irregular facade consists of five bays of sash windows with glazing bars. There is a modern porch with a broken pediment, and plain pilasters frame the former four-bay facade. A brick dentil cornice is present, and the roof is hipped at the north end. There is one axial stack that was formerly gable-end to the main block. Inside, the principal transverse beams have ogee and nicked chamfer stops. The Cottage is included for its group value with "Corner Cottage."
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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