The Old Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1983. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Homestead
- WRENN ID
- standing-pewter-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Homestead, Toprow, Wreningham, NR16 1AR
- OS grid reference
- TM 167 979
- Coordinates
- 52.53646, 1.19407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Homestead is a 17th-century cottage located on the north side of Toprow in Wreningham. It features a timber frame that is rendered and weatherboarded, with one gable end made of colour-washed brick. The cottage has a thatched roof and is one storey high with an attic. The windows are modern metal casements with horizontal glazing bars, and there is a 20th-century gabled porch. A single dormer is present, and the gable end has four small windows next to the stack. The upper windows are adorned with rectangular hood moulds, and there are decorative tie-ends with fleur-de-lys terminals.
Local climate
The Old Homestead 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 89% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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