Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-frieze-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rectory Cottage, Church Road, Alburgh, IP20 0BY
- OS grid reference
- TM 271 870
- Coordinates
- 52.43408, 1.34018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Cottage is probably a 17th-century timber-frame building. It has a steep, plain tile roof with gabled ends. The first floor has two small 4-light casement windows from the 19th century. The ground floor has two larger, modern casement windows. A brick chimney stack is located at the rear. A 19th-century plastered addition extends from the right-hand end. This addition is two storeys with a lower-pitched pantile roof and a gabled end. It features a late 19th or 20th-century casement window on the first floor and a modern glazed door on the ground floor.
Local climate
Rectory Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 66% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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