Avenue Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Avenue Farm Cottages

WRENN ID
drifting-attic-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Avenue Farm Cottages, Alpington
OS grid reference
TG 299 020
Coordinates
52.56758, 1.39137
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Avenue Farm Cottages is a pair of cottages that were formerly one house, dating from the 19th century. The cottages feature a red brick facing that covers an earlier timber frame, with brick return gables from the 18th century. The roof is reed thatched, while a wing to the west has a pantiled roof. The building has an L-shaped plan and stands at 1½ storeys high.

The front has a range of four widely spaced windows, which include 19th century and 20th century casements. The ground floor openings have segmental heads, and there are four dormers on the east side. There are two entrance doors, one of which has a 20th century porch. The gables are parapeted with brick tumbling-in.

Inside, there is an internal chimney stack at the north gable and an off-centre axial stack. The later pantiled wing at the north-west corner features a large external stack on its north wall and has 20th century casements in the gable. The structure includes arch-braced tie beams to the north and south of the axial stack, which support square unmoulded crown posts and a collar-purlin. The roof has a butt-purlin design with closely-set principal rafters. The first floor features tie beams and joists that have stepped run-out stops, and one tie beam has barred chamfer-stops.

Local climate

Avenue Farm Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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