The Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1988. Cottage.
The Cottages
- WRENN ID
- lesser-timber-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottages, Station Road, Middleton, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 667 171
- Coordinates
- 52.72665, 0.46809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottages are a pair of estate cottages built in 1906 for John Raylor Ramsden. They are constructed from carstone and have plain tile roofs. The cottages feature four bays and are one storey high with an attic, designed in the Arts and Craft style with a focus on reflective symmetry. The exterior is made of carstone rubble, with dressed carstone used for the quoins, bands, and surrounds, and leaded lights in the openings.
The bands above the ground floor openings extend around the sides, with projecting keystones above each opening. The central two bays are recessed, each containing a three-light casement window on the ground floor and an adjacent three-light roof dormer. There are cross stones on the left and right sides made of brick with raised stepped strips. The outer bays have gables that slope down towards the centre; the ground floor features a three-light casement window on the outer side and a doorway with a boarded door leading towards the central bays. The attic gables each have a three-light casement window, with the one on bay four having plain glass and a stone shield above it displaying the date 1906 and the monogram JTR.
These cottages are noted as an example of estate cottages in the Arts and Craft style that utilize local materials.
Local climate
The Cottages 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% 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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