The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-jamb-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Mill Road, Earsham, NR35 2TJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 324 889
- Coordinates
- 52.44903, 1.41872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th century timber-frame cottage that has been encased in red brick during the 19th century. It features a steep pantile roof with gabled ends, which have shaped barge boards and finials. There is an off-centre brick chimney stack. The building is one storey with an attic, and it has two gabled dormers, each with shaped barge boards and finials, along with 3-light casement windows. The ground floor has modern 3-light casements with glazing bars and a gabled porch on the left side. At the rear, there is a brick lean-to.
Local climate
The 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 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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