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

Shingle Cottage

WRENN ID
first-chamber-primrose
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
Shingle Cottage, High Road, Needham
OS grid reference
TM 228 815
Coordinates
52.38671, 1.2729
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shingle Cottage is an early 16th century timber-frame house that has been rendered. It features a steep pantile roof with gabled ends and a brick chimney stack located at the center. The building has two storeys and includes three-light casement windows from the 19th and 20th centuries, along with a central panelled door positioned in front of the chimney stack. At the rear, there is a 19th century lean-to. Inside, there is a foyer with an exterior doorway in the lean-to, which includes a four-centred arch doorway adorned with roses in the spandrels and the original door. Another four-centred arch doorway is also present. Additionally, there is a three-light window with heavy moulded mullions on the wall facing into the lean-to, as well as other diamond-shaped mullion windows.

Local climate

Shingle 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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