Forget Me Not Cottage, Also Known As Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Forget Me Not Cottage, Also Known As Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-crypt-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forget Me Not Cottage, Also Known As Thatched Cottage, 14, Short Beck, Feltwell, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, IP26 4AD
- OS grid reference
- TL 712 907
- Coordinates
- 52.48821, 0.52064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-18th century house located on Short Beck in Feltwell. It is constructed of flint with whitewashed brick dressings around the windows and door, and has a thatched roof. The house is one storey high with a dormer attic extending across three bays. A central door is sheltered by a segmental gauged brick arch. There are renewed casement windows to the left and right of the door, also set beneath segmental gauged brick arches. The roof is gabled and features three dormers with 20th-century casement windows set within the thatch. The roof ends have parapet gable walls resting on kneelers, and internal gable end stacks.
Local climate
Forget Me Not Cottage, Also Known As Thatched Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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