Briar Cottage and Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1985. Cottages. 6 related planning applications.
Briar Cottage and Fern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-zinc-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1985
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Briar Cottage and Fern Cottage, 53 and 54, Market Place, Burnham Market, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE31 8HD
- OS grid reference
- TF 833 421
- Coordinates
- 52.94546, 0.72701
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briar Cottage and Fern Cottage are a pair of cottages located on the south side of Market Place in Burnham Market. The rear of the cottages dates to the 17th century, but the facades were rebuilt in the 18th century. They are constructed of red brick, with a red pantiled roof.
Briar Cottage, on the east side, features a canted bow window. It has an early 19th-century fixed casement window with sash-type glazing bars, altered side lights, and a single 2-light casement window on the first floor with glazing bars. A partially glazed door dates to around 1900. A platband runs along the first floor and eaves. Fern Cottage, on the west side, has whitewashed brick. It includes a ground floor tripartite plate glass sash window dating to around 1900, and a first-floor sash window with glazing bars. The cottage also boasts a fine early 19th-century doorcase, consisting of two fluted Greek Doric pilasters, an entablature with triglyphs and guttae, and a cornice. The door itself is raised and fielded, with nine panels; the centre panels are decorated with corner paterae, and the two upper panels are glazed.
Local climate
Briar Cottage and Fern Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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