Pensthorpe Manor Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. House. 1 related planning application.

Pensthorpe Manor Cottages

WRENN ID
fossil-chalk-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Norfolk
Constituency
Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1984
Type
House
Address
Pensthorpe Manor Cottages, Fakenham Road, Kettlestone
OS grid reference
TF 947 290
Coordinates
52.82374, 0.88864
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pensthorpe Manor Cottages is a 17th-century house constructed from flint with brick dressings and a red pantiled roof. Originally a single house, it has since been divided into cottages. The building features two storeys, with three window openings and three doors on the ground floor, and four first-floor windows along with one small casement. It has brick end quoins, kneelers, and coped parapets, with an end stack. The east gable is made of flint with brick dressings and has brick-dressed windows on the ground, first, and attic floors. There is a partly blocked brick mullioned window on the first floor at the rear.

A two-storey brick addition from the 18th century is gabled. Inside, there are spine beams on the ground floor and a steeply pitched butt-purlin roof with collar braces. Attached to the west is a row of three two-storey cottages, also made from flint with brick dressings. This row has five ground-floor windows, two of which are blocked, and one boarded door, along with two first-floor windows. It features brick quoins and a dentil eaves cornice, with a shared stack on the party wall of the earlier house and a 20th-century stack at the west end. The cottages are listed for their group value with the earlier house and date from the late 18th or early 19th century.

Local climate

Pensthorpe Manor Cottages receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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