Elm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1994. House.
Elm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- turning-loft-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elm Cottage, Thelnetham Road, Blo' Norton
- OS grid reference
- TM 013 794
- Coordinates
- 52.37565, 0.95592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century. It features a timber frame set on a brick plinth, with white-washed stucco covering wattle and daub infill. The roof is thatched and has a brick central ridge stack. The building has a three-unit lobby-entry plan and is a single storey with an attic, showcasing a three-window range of two- and three-light casements. There is a gabled porch on the centre right, which includes a plank door and a fanlight. Above, there are three gabled dormers with two lights each. At the rear, there is a small outshut covered with pantiles, and a moulded-plank rear door that is likely original.
Inside, the cottage has seen little alteration. Narrow panel flaming is visible throughout the space. There are back-to-back brick open fireplaces with hoods, one of which has a renewed bressumer. The spine beams are stop-chamfered with bar and ogee stops, and heavy square joists are present. The doors are made of planks. The stairs divide to either side of the stack and have cupboards with plank doors underneath. The roof structure consists of a single tier of purlins and cambered collars.
Local climate
Elm 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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