Blackwater Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1983. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Blackwater Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-lancet-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Blackwater Cottage, Blackwater Lane, Great Witchingham, NR9 5PH
- OS grid reference
- TG 089 200
- Coordinates
- 52.73806, 1.09332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blackwater Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage constructed of colourwashed brick, with some areas rendered. It features a steeply-pitched roof that is thatched with reeds. The building has one storey and an attic, with a parapetted west gable. An off-centre chimney stack has twin diagonally-set shafts that have been rebuilt. There are two sash windows with glazing bars, and a segmental-headed entrance door located opposite the chimney stack. Additionally, the west gable has two casement windows with leaded glazing and an added raking brick buttress.
Local climate
Blackwater Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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