Hempland Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. House. 5 related planning applications.
Hempland Cottage
- WRENN ID
- woven-solder-acorn
- 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
- Hempland Cottage, 27, Low Street, Wortwell, IP20 0HJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 273 842
- Coordinates
- 52.40895, 1.34114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hempland Cottage is a 17th-century timber-frame house located on the south-east side of Low Street in Wortwell. The house has been plastered externally and is topped with a thatched roof featuring gabled ends. A brick chimney stack is situated off-centre. The front, which faces the road, is one storey high with an attic. It has one small casement window and a small shuttered opening to the left. A single-storey wing with an attic is situated at the rear. An attic window is visible in the gable end.
Local climate
Hempland 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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