The Olde Messuage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1991. House.
The Olde Messuage
- WRENN ID
- lunar-span-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Olde Messuage, Church Lane, Thwaite
- OS grid reference
- TM 334 950
- Coordinates
- 52.50379, 1.43757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Olde Messuage is a house that likely dates back to the 17th century. It features a timber frame that is partly faced with brick and has a glazed black pantile roof. The building has a three-cell plan and includes an 18th-century brick range that is positioned at right angles to the rear. The facade consists of three bays and has two storeys. There is a 19th or 20th-century brick doorway with a four-centred arch located in the left-hand bay, and a gabled porch from the same period in the centre bay. The corners of the building are accentuated with brick pilasters. A central axial stack made of 17th-century brick has been repaired in the 19th century. The right-hand gable wall is partly clad in brick, and there is a lower two-storey range at the rear. Access to the property is limited.
Local climate
The Olde Messuage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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