Gardeners Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Gardeners Cottage

WRENN ID
gaunt-turret-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Gardeners Cottage, the Street, Topcroft
OS grid reference
TM 264 915
Coordinates
52.4751, 1.33294
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gardeners Cottage is a 18th-century cottage, likely constructed from rendered timber frame and brick, with a glazed black pantile roof. The building has a rectangular shape and features a facade with five bays and one and a half storeys. There is a rendered plinth, and the second and fourth bays have 19th-century four-panel doors. A three-light casement window is located under a segmental arch in the first bay, while a small casement is found in the centre bay and another three-light casement is in the fifth bay. There are attic casements in the first and fifth bays, and gable end stacks complete the structure.

Local climate

Gardeners Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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