Mere Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1990. House.
Mere Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-spire-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mere Cottage, the Street, Brooke
- OS grid reference
- TM 290 992
- Coordinates
- 52.5428, 1.37607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mere Cottage is a house that dates back to the 17th century and was remodelled in the 18th century. It features a rendered timber frame and a glazed black pantile roof. The building has a three-cell plan with a range at the rear. The facade consists of three bays and is two storeys high, with a rendered plinth. It has 16-pane sash windows and a central door that has six panels and a peacock's tail fanlight. The doorcase is adorned with pilasters, which have dentil capitals, and is topped with an open pediment. There are three sashes on the first floor, with the central window having 12 panes. A central gault brick stack is present on the roof.
Local climate
Mere Cottage 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings