Stone Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage.

Stone Cottage

WRENN ID
idle-bracket-nightshade
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
Stone Cottage, the Street, Forncett
OS grid reference
TM 164 931
Coordinates
52.49371, 1.1865
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stone Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located in Forncett St Peter. It is constructed from flint cobbles with buff-coloured brick dressings and features a black glazed pantile roof with coped gable ends. The building stands two storeys high and has three bays. The windows are two-light casements, with the centre window on the first floor being blind. There is a central flush-panel door, and the ground floor openings are adorned with brick voussoirs. Internally, there is a brick chimney stack at each end of the cottage.

Local climate

Stone Cottage 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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