Keeper's Cottage Including Outbuilding Adjacent West is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1991. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Keeper's Cottage Including Outbuilding Adjacent West
- WRENN ID
- vacant-brass-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1991
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Keeper's Cottage Including Outbuilding Adjacent West, Wickmere, NR11 7LY
- OS grid reference
- TG 166 312
- Coordinates
- 52.83521, 1.21436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeper's Cottage, with an adjacent outbuilding, dates from the 18th century, with extensions added around the mid-19th century and in the 20th century. The cottage is built of English bond red brick, with a plinth. It has a red clay pantile roof with gabled ends, and exposed shaped rafter ends at the eaves. A brick axial stack rises from the centre, featuring octagonal shafts with moulded caps and bases.
The cottage originally comprised two rooms, each with a fireplace in the central axial stack, an entrance lobby at the front, and an integral outbuilding to the west. In the 19th century, a single-storey outhouse wing was constructed behind the main outbuilding, and a small outshut was added to the rear of the cottage, later extended in the 20th century. Further outshuts were added on either side of the original outshut in the 20th century. A 19th-century single-storey wing was also built on the right side behind the main outbuilding, featuring a gable end stack.
The south front of the cottage has two windows with 19th-century two-light casements on the ground floor. A blocked window sits to the left of the centre. A 20th-century central porch provides access to a flush panel door. A rebuilt section of Flemish bond brickwork is visible to the right of the porch. A gabled dormer is situated to the left of centre, containing a 19th-century casement. The outbuilding to the left has two small square windows on its front, a blocked doorway on its west gable end, and a 19th-century casement on its east end, with a 20th-century casement above in an earlier pointed arch opening.
Inside, the left and right-hand rooms have chamfered cross-beams with run-out stops, and 20th-century brick fireplaces. The first floor, roof, and outbuilding were not inspected.
Local climate
Keeper's Cottage Including Outbuilding Adjacent West receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 2008
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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