Watch House is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
Watch House
- WRENN ID
- open-lime-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Watch House, Chapel Corner, Denton, IP20 0AN
- OS grid reference
- TM 279 882
- Coordinates
- 52.44497, 1.35322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century timber-frame house, later encased in red brick during the 19th century. It has a steep pantile roof with gabled ends and a brick chimney stack slightly off-centre. The house is two storeys high with an attic, the gable end of which contains an attic window. There are 19th-century, three-light casement windows. Single-storey plus attic wings were added in the 19th century, one to the north and one to the south-east.
Local climate
Watch House 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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