The Cottage the Old Blacksmith's Arms is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1983. Former public house, dwelling. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage the Old Blacksmith's Arms
- WRENN ID
- half-mullion-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1983
- Type
- Former public house, dwelling
- Address
- The Cottage the Old Blacksmith's Arms, the Green, Deopham
- OS grid reference
- TM 045 994
- Coordinates
- 52.55487, 1.01557
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Blacksmith's Arms and "The Cottage" is a former public house dating from the 18th century, now with a side extension that serves as a separate dwelling. The building features a rendered timber-frame structure topped with a thatched roof, while the extension is made of roughcast clay-lump with a pantiled roof. It is a single-storey building with an attic and a two-storey extension. There are two 20th-century windows alongside a 19th-century planked front door. A single three-light casement dormer is present, and the extension includes 18th-century mullioned and transomed casements with leaded lights. A protruding stack likely belonged to an earlier building on the same site, and there are later side extensions at both ends.
Local climate
The Cottage the Old Blacksmith's Arms sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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