The Old Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage.
The Old Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-loggia-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Rectory Cottage, Fritton Common, Morningthorpe and Fritton
- OS grid reference
- TM 226 928
- Coordinates
- 52.48819, 1.2775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory Cottage is a 17th century timber-framed cottage that has been plastered. It features a thatched roof with gabled ends and stands two storeys high. The cottage has one bay and includes casement windows with leaded panes, along with a large brick chimney at the north end. There is a later brick wing added to the north end, which has been significantly modernised. This wing is single storey with an attic, a lower pantile roof, and two large modern dormers with casements.
Local climate
The Old Rectory 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 91% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
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