Sweetbriar is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1994. House. 3 related planning applications.
Sweetbriar
- WRENN ID
- burning-plaster-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sweetbriar, Sweetbriar Lane, Thorpe Market, NR11 8TT
- OS grid reference
- TG 232 349
- Coordinates
- 52.86593, 1.31515
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sweetbriar Cottage is a house built around 1830 for the Gunton estate. It features rendered clunch with gault brick dressings and a thatched roof, which has a central brick ridge stack with four octagonal flues. The cottage is designed in an elaborate cottage orne style and is a single storey with an attic. The front has a two-window range of two-light leaded casements, with similar dormers above and a central door. An open verandah with a thatched roof runs the full length of the front, supported by wooden posts and featuring a gable in the centre. There are similar casements at both ends, with the left side having a part-glazed door and porch that likely overlooked a subsidiary gateway on the estate. The rear has an outshut with a catslide roof along its full length and decorative bargeboards throughout. Inside, there are back-to-back small open fireplaces with brick arches, plank doors, and an arched ceiling in the former dairy.
Local climate
Sweetbriar 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 greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- 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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