Crown Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1995. House.
Crown Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-storey-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1995
- Type
- House
- Address
- Crown Cottage, North Pickenham Road, Swaffham
- OS grid reference
- TF 827 085
- Coordinates
- 52.6437, 0.70033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crown Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century, with two gabled extensions added to the north side in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of flint and red brick, topped with pantiled roofs.
The south front is two stories high and features a four-window range. To the right of the center, there is a half-glazed door from the early 20th century, which is sheltered by a hood. The ground floor has three unhorned sash windows with six panes over six, while the first floor has three unhorned sash windows with three panes over six, plus one unhorned sash window with four panes over eight in the right-hand bay. A dentil eaves cornice runs along the top. The roof is gabled, with an internal gable-end stack on the west side.
To the north, there is a two-story wing with a two-window range. This wing has a six-flush-panelled door to the left and a four-pane over eight unhorned sash window to the right. The first floor contains one unhorned sash window with two panes over four and another with three panes over six. The roof of this wing is also gabled, featuring a ridge stack positioned to the right of center. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Crown Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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