Chestnuts is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. House.
Chestnuts
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-brick-burdock
- 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
- Chestnuts, Station Road, Alburgh
- OS grid reference
- TM 276 863
- Coordinates
- 52.42777, 1.34748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnuts is a 17th century timber-frame house located in Aldburgh. The house is rendered and features applied sham timber-framing. It has a thatched roof with gabled ends and an off-centre brick chimney stack. The building is two storeys high with an attic, which includes a window in the end gable. Modern casement windows with leaded panes are present throughout. The original doorway is positioned in front of the chimney stack and is accompanied by a modern porch and a one-storey wing that adjoins the house.
Local climate
Chestnuts 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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