Octagon Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1983. Cottages.
Octagon Cottages
- WRENN ID
- floating-flue-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1983
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Octagon Cottages, Park Road, Holkham
- OS grid reference
- TF 891 435
- Coordinates
- 52.95603, 0.81386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Octagon Cottages are a pair of estate cottages built in 1801 by Samuel Wyatt. They are designed in the shape of an octagon and constructed from gault brick with a slate roof. The cottages are two storeys high and feature a central octagonal chimney stack. The sash windows have glazing bars and there are rubbed arches above the ground floor openings. Each facade includes a tripartite casement with glazing bars set in a segmental-headed recess. There is a half-glazed entrance door on the left side, which is likely a later addition. The cottages were intended to be an interesting architectural feature when viewed from within Holkham Park.
Local climate
Octagon Cottages 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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