Church Cottage

Church Cottage is a house built around 1830, with an extension added to the north in 1999. It features red brick laid in English and Flemish bond, with slate roofs and a central brick ridge stack. The original part of the house is two storeys high and has a two-window range. An English-bond plinth course runs around the building.

The east elevation includes a central brick porch with a four-centred opening that creates a recess for a four-plank ledged door. There are two 2-light arched Y-tracery casement windows on either side of the porch, each with one opening leaf and external shutters. A verandah on the first floor is supported by circular timber posts, and there are two similar first-floor windows with secondary tracery in the tracery head. The hipped roof has projecting eaves and a central ridge stack.

The south elevation is narrower, also featuring a two-window range with similar windows and a continuation of the verandah. The west elevation mirrors this with another two-window range, showcasing two Y-tracery Gothick windows, one of which has diamond and hexagonal glass quarries in the first-floor south window.

Inside, the north ground-floor room has a chamfered spine beam and a late 19th-century cast-iron arched register grate within a plain timber surround. The south room has a similar fire surround and insert. Church Cottage is one of the few examples of an eclectic house from around 1830 in north-east Norfolk, combining Italianate, Gothick, and cottage-ornee styles, all adhering to a traditional lobby-entrance layout, likely influenced by pattern books. Originally built for the Diocese as a residence for the sexton, the house is part of a group that includes the Church of St Mary and the Trafford Mausoleum.